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Brown and UN head discuss Darfur Aids and poverty focus for Brown
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to hold talks with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon about the Darfur crisis. UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to call for a greater international effort to combat Aids and poverty in a speech at the UN.
The pair are expected to discuss ways of dealing with the situation in the Sudanese region, where 200,000 people have been killed. Mr Brown wants world leaders to live up to their Millennium promises made seven years ago to tackle a range of issues.
The private meeting comes a day after Mr Brown and US President George Bush held their first formal talks at Camp David, near Washington. He is also due to meet UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to discuss issues such as Sudan's Darfur conflict.
They also debated Darfur and agreed to step up pressure to end the bloodshed. On Monday, Mr Brown concluded his first formal talks with President George Bush at Camp David, near Washington.
Ahead of the meeting in New York, Mr Brown urged world leaders to live up to millennium promises to tackle issues ranging from world poverty to the fight against Aids. During the talks, Mr Bush and Mr Brown renewed pledges to fight terrorism and seek progress in Iraq.
The prime minister will address an invited audience at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Tuesday. Ambitious goals
'Enduring relationship' Mr Ban and Mr Brown will be expected to discuss ways of dealing with the situation in the Sudanese region of Darfur where 200,000 people have been killed.
Later on Tuesday morning, an invited audience will hear the prime minister's address at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
Aides said he will focus on trying to find practical ways of meeting the ambitious goals set by world leaders in 2000.Aides said he will focus on trying to find practical ways of meeting the ambitious goals set by world leaders in 2000.
Mr Brown's visit to New York comes at the end of his first trip to the United States since taking over at Number 10 last month. Goals include eradicating extreme poverty, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality, cutting child deaths and combating diseases.
Every aspect of the visit has been analysed by commentators for a sign of a cooling in relations between Britain and the US. 'Common struggle'
Tony Lloyd, chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party, said he was pleased Mr Brown had gone to Washington. The speech comes a day after Mr Brown's first official meeting as prime minister with President Bush.
"Our relationship with the United States is not about one person in 10 Downing Street and one person in the White House, whether it's Tony Blair and George Bush or now Gordon Brown and George Bush," he said. Our aim, like the United States is, step-by-step, to move control to the Iraqi authorities Gordon Brown He said both nations had duties and responsibilities in Iraq, and that he would seek military advice before announcing any changes in policy.
"We have an enduring, important relationship with the United States and no British prime minister is going to throw that away." The president spoke warmly of the "special relationship" with the UK and said he found Mr Brown a warm, humorous man.
But the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson, at Camp David, said Mr Brown did nothing to return those personal compliments - even referring to their meetings as full and frank, which is normal diplomatic code for an argument.
On the issue of Iraq, Mr Brown said: "Our aim, like the United States is, step-by-step, to move control to the Iraqi authorities."
He also denied suggestions that his view of terrorism differed greatly from that of Mr Bush.
Mr Brown added: "We know we are in a common struggle, we know we have to work together, and we know we have to deal with it.