H.E. Dr. Amadou Boubacar Cisse, the Vice President of the Islamic Development Bank, will participate in the UN General Assembly's Informal Thematic Debate on Development entitled: "Partnerships towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals" on 27 November 2006, at UN Headquarters in New York, USA.

H.E. Dr. Cisse will address the meeting on behalf of the IDB Group, emphasizing the Bank's goals and efforts to promote Development and combat poverty through its different Development programs. He will also touch on the goals of the Poverty AlleviationFund, which was approved by the Third Extra Ordinary Session of the Islamic Summit, which took place last December in Makkah, where IDB was assigned to manage the Fund within its Group.

While in New York, H.E. Vice President would also sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between IDB and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) for cooperation between the two institutions in issues related to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in their respective member countries.