"Population" on development agenda

"There is no peace without development and without the eradication of poverty neither would be achieved". This was the thread permeating the first inter-governmental consideration of the report of the UN Secretary-General on "An Agenda for Development" at the 1994 session of the Economic and Social Council on 28 June 1994. The meeting also agreed that pressures caused by population growth, international migration and urbanization should be given thorough consideration in the Agenda for Development. The Secretary-General thought that the time was ripe for the Agenda for Development to appear. The very concept of development had changed, he said; the concept needed to be expanded. "I am firmly convinced that the fiftieth anniversary of the UN must be, for us, the opportunity to rethink and to reinvent our economic and social development policy", he said.