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resident Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono chaired the final briefings of the United Nations' High Level Panel (HLP) on the Post 2015 Development Agenda and submitted the final report to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in New York, US, on Thursday.

The meeting, held in Conference Room 6, North Lawn Building, at the UN headquarters, commenced on Wednesday afternoon, early on Thursday morning Indonesian time, Antara news agency reported.

The theme of the meeting was 'The Way Forward and Political Consensus'.

Ban had asked President Yudhoyono, along with British Prime Minister David Cameron and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to co-chair the HLP.

The British and Liberian leaders, however, did not attend the final briefings and submission ceremony. They were represented by British International Development Minister Justine Greening and Liberian Vice President Joseph Nyuma Boakai.

It was the second time Cameron was absent from a HLP meeting after he failed to attend the panel's fourth meeting in Bali, in March.

According to presidential spokesman for foreign affairs Teuku Faizasyah, Sirleaf had opted to attend at the 5th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD V) in Yokohama, Japan.

'Prime Minister Cameron has activities in connection with his role in the G8,' Faizasyah told The Jakarta Post via text messages.

'Both British and Liberian government leaders have conveyed their regrets to President Yudhoyono for their absence from the HLP meeting,' he added.

During the panel's fifth meeting in New York on May 14, it was Yudhoyono who was absent while Cameron and Sirleaf attended the meeting.

Faizasyah did not comment when asked why Yudhoyono had not attended the fifth meeting.

All three co-chairs were present during the panel's first meeting in New York (September 2012), second meeting in London (November 2012) and third meeting in Monrovia, Liberia (February 2013).

On the sidelines of the fifth meeting in New York, Cameron suggested that he 'needed to intervene to ensure the report does not lose sight of its original goals.' His statement was perceived as a criticism of the panel's draft final report.

'It is coming to the end of its work. I hope it is going to be a good piece of work. But I need to be there in order to nail down some simple clear commitments that everyone can get behind,' he said as quoted by The Guardian.

During his stay in New York, the President was also expected to receive a World Statesman Award from the Appeal of Conscience Foundation for his services to the promotion of democracy, his contribution to the creation of a more peaceful international order and for encouraging respect for human rights, freedom of religion and inter-civilization relations.

The award, to be presented on Thursday night New York time, has triggered controversy at home particularly because of a series of incidents of religious persecution in the country during Yudhoyono's presidency.