Press Release: 3359th Council meeting Foreign Affairs (Development issues) – Brussels, 12 December 2014

Main results of the Council

Post-2015: The Council discussed recent developments, in particular the recently issued synthesis report by the UN Secretary General, and next steps regarding the post-2015 framework, the new framework for the international community's efforts towards poverty eradication and sustainable development.

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, said: "The principle of the next global framework is not to leave anyone behind, not only in some parts of the world, but in all parts of the world. With the new Council conclusions, the EU will start to speak with one voice on post 2015 agenda", she added.

The EU and its member states are committed to an ambitious, transformative and inclusive post-2015 agenda. Final negotiations at the UN are about to start to prepare the conference on financing for development in July and the UN summit on the post-2015 development agenda in September 2015. The EU is further developing its position through Council conclusions to be adopted by the General Affairs Council on 16 December, and will continue to do so in the coming months.

Ebola: Over lunch, ministers were briefed by EU Ebola coordinator Christos Stylianides on the crisis and the EU's response to it. They exchanged views on medium to long-term support to reconstruction and recovery in the wake of the epidemic. Collectively, the EU and its member states are the prime donor among the international community to help stem the Ebola outbreak: Pledges from the Commission and member states now exceed €1.1 billion.