Hours before boarding a flight out of Kabul, Norwegian diplomat Kai Eide delivered a final warning Saturday as he wrapped up his two-year tenure as the top United Nations diplomat in Afghanistan.

K.S Jomo, U.N Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development (DESA) talks about the Millenium Development Goals(M.D.G), their shortfalls, flaws in some programmes and a few breakthroughs.  

While experts here are being deliberately tentative in their assessments of Thursday's meeting in Geneva between Iran and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany (P5+1), there appears to be a growing sense that the results could lay the basis for a long-sought diplomatic breakthrough.