Annan Says Public-Private Partnership Key to Better World for Children

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Annan Says Public-Private Partnership Key to Better World for Children

Collaboration among governments, corporations and civic groups can help create a better future for the children worldwide, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Thursday.

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Collaboration among governments, corporations and civic groups can help create a better future for the children worldwide, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Thursday.

"Public-private partnerships have the power to help children in many ways," Annan told a meeting held in conjunction with the General Assembly Special Session on Children, which opened at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Wednesday.

The U.N. chief told participants attending the meeting, billed as a public-private partnership dialogue, that they could buttress the work of the three-day session from improved nutrition to the prevention and treatment of AIDS, from the education of girls to safe drinking water and sanitation.

By lobbying for debt relief, increased development assistance and open markets, these partnerships could help developing countries to "compete freely and trade their way out of poverty, rather than live on hand-outs," the secretary-general said.

"Through your commitment, influence and example, you will also open doors to yet more partnerships, more coalitions for common cause," he said, adding that such alliances "are the way of the future, and the way to invest in children."

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