G20-2015 Turkey

LEADERS’ PERSPECTIVES
United States | Barack Obama
Viewpoints
from across
the G20
Selected quotes from some of
the leaders gathering in Antalya
for the 2015 G20 summit
“Right now, some 800 million men,
women and children are scraping
by on less than $1.25 a day.
Imagine that. Gripped by the
ache of an empty stomach.
Billions of our fellow human
beings are at risk of dying from diseases that we
know how to prevent. Many children are just one
mosquito bite away from death. And that is a moral
outrage. It is a profound injustice. It is literally a
matter of life and death, and now the world must
act. We cannot leave people behind.”
United Nations General Assembly, 27 September 2015
China | Xi Jinping
“Development is meaningful
only when it is inclusive and
sustainable. To achieve such
development requires openness,
mutual assistance and win-win
cooperation. In the world today,
close to 800 million people still live in extreme poverty,
nearly six million kids die before the age of five each
year and nearly 60 million children are unable to go to
school. The just concluded UN Sustainable Development
Summit adopted the Post-2015 Development Agenda.
We must translate our commitments into actions
and work together to ensure that everyone is free
from want, has access to development and lives
with dignity … To build a sound ecology is vital for
mankind’s future. All members of the international
community should work together to build a sound
global eco-environment. We should respect nature,
follow nature’s ways and protect nature. We should
firmly pursue green, low-carbon, circular and
sustainable development. China will shoulder its
share of responsibility and continue to play its part
in this common endeavour. We also urge developed
countries to fulfill their historical responsibility,
honour their emission-reduction commitments and
help developing countries mitigate and adapt to
climate change.”
United Nations General Assembly, 28 September 2015
Germany | Angela Merkel
“The key prerequisite for successful
development is and will remain
peace. But millions of people
– more than at any time since
the Second World War – are
being forced to flee war, terror and
violence. Their suffering is exacerbated by their lack of
prospects for the future and by the destruction of their
environment. Anyone who witnesses the suffering of
those who have left their homes to seek protection and
a future elsewhere, and who is aware of the challenge
facing the countries which take in the refugees, knows
that in the end there can be but one solution: we must
tackle the causes of flight and expulsion.”
United Nations General Assembly, 25 September 2015
France | François Hollande
“Everyone is convinced that there
will be an agreement in Paris,
but what accord and with what
type of ambition? In Paris,
it is not about signing just a
text, but a text that commits us
for decades, that concerns all countries with a legal
weighting and that every five years we can evaluate
what has been done.”
United Nations General Assembly, 27 September 2015
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