Urgent action needed to meet poverty reduction goals: British PM

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UNITED NATIONS (AFP) — Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Tuesday called for a new humanitarian alliance to help meet key world poverty reduction targets, evoking a "coalition for justice" in the spirit of the US Peace Corps.

In an address to the United Nations in New York, Brown said change was needed to help fulfill the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), progress on which is behind schedule eight years before they are due to be completed.

As he made his keynote foreign policy speech, Brown also expressed confidence that a new draft UN resolution on Darfur for the immediate deployment of a peacekeeping forces would be adopted later Tuesday.

"Today is an important decision day for Darfur, and for change," he said in his address after a breakfast meeting...