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What matters are the 'doing' words: only ten paragraphs important at the UN summit

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World leaders meeting in New York this week need to avoid being distracted by details and focus on ten key paragraphs that will determine the success of the United Nations Summit. Speaking in London today, the Director of the Overseas Development Institute, Simon Maxwell, said the main value of the Summit lay not in declarations about world poverty but in practical improvements to the working of the UN.