UN summit sees western leaders defend slow progress to end global inequality

Leaders insisted war in Ukraine had not distracted them from sustainable development goals Western leaders have gone on a charm offensive on the opening day of the UN general assembly as they were forced to defend their record in meeting the organisation's sustainable development goals (SDGs), and insist that the war in Ukraine had not distracted them from this commitment to end global inequality. At a special summit in New York amounting to a halfway stocktake on progress towards meeting the go...