UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will meet International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge on Tuesday in Accra, capital of Ghana, to discuss IOC and UN cooperation, according to a report by the News Agency of Nigeria.
The two leaders last met in October in New York when the UN General Assembly adopted the Olympic Truce Resolution for this year's Beijing Olympic Games.
Among topics for the scheduled one-and-a-half hour meeting are the IOC's commitment to UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG).
The IOC has identified five development goals it believed it could help advance through sport and with its partners.
They include eradicating poverty and hunger, promoting greater equality for women, combating HIV/AIDS, as well as malaria and other diseases, environmental sustainability, and collaboration with governments on a global partnership for development.
The IOC currently worked with a wide array of UN specialized agencies and organizations around the world to benefit youth and community.
Rogge and Ki-Moon will also discuss ways in which the IOC and UN can work together more closely to explore ways in which sport and the Olympic Movement can help support humanitarian goals.
(Xinhua News Agency January 22, 2008)
