Pacific states get UN praise for poverty fight

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Updated February 9, 2010 09:10:47

The United Nations has congratulated Pacific countries for the progress they have made on a strategy - the so-called Mauritius Strategy - to help small island developing states combat poverty.

The head of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Dr Noeleen Heyzer, is in Vanuatu for a series of meetings with political leaders and island nation bureaucrats.

Yesterday she addressed a meeting aimed at reviewing the strategy in the light of the Global Economic Crisis.

Presenter: Sean Dorney, Australia Network's Pacific correspondent
Speaker: Edward Natapei, Vanuatu's Prime Minister; Neroni Slade, Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum; Dr Noeleen Heyzer, executive secretary of the UN's Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

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