Implementation of our national development strategy is progressing positively.

It follows from our completion strategy document that 17 detainees are awaiting trial.

But our strategies for ending war must also tackle the question of relapse.

Thirdly, I suggest better prioritization in our strategy to achieve these goals.

Our new defense strategy and budget makes clear that it will not.

We fully support those concepts, with substantive provisions reflected in our national strategy and programmes.

As part of our national security strategy, we remain committed to fostering a culture of peace and the peaceful resolution of conflicts.

In our regional strategy we recognize our responsibility in the area of development, but we are also aware of the major obstacles we are facing.

Iceland fully subscribes to such an approach, which forms the basis of our own marine strategy, issued last year.

We have completed our full fledged Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper through a broad based consultative process involving all stakeholders.

The focus on employment and education, among other areas of priority, is a central part of our poverty reduction strategy.

In our WMD Strategy we are committed to promoting further consideration of security assurances

It is important to note that the MDGs are very similar to the goals that we ourselves try to accomplish within our own economic strategy.

The EU Programme for Action, announced earlier this year, outlines our future strategy for combating HIV AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

Given our security requirements and the need to guard our long borders, which are not protected by any natural obstacle, the use of landmines forms an important part of our self defence strategy.

It has worked to strengthen its cooperation with international financial institutions and has undertaken to draft and implement our poverty reduction strategy and the special programme of the President of the Republic, Mr. Tandja Mamadou.

My country has set for itself the same objectives in its development strategies, plans and programmes as are found in the Millennium Declaration, particularly our national poverty reduction strategy and our national strategy for good governance.

In pursuit of the MDGs and of our national economic development objectives, Nigeria has drawn up and embarked upon conscious efforts to realize set targets encapsulated in our National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS).

First, as regards youth and employment, in our National Youth Development Strategy to the Year 2010, which was approved by the Government in 2003, unemployment was identified as the biggest difficulty currently facing our young people.

In our European Security Strategy, it was deemed one of the key strategic threats facing the European Union, and to fight it we are using all instruments at our disposal, particularly in the intelligence area.

We are all allies of the US our draft constitution restates the importance of the NATO link our strategy for growth and our contribution to global stability depend on the irreplaceable nature of our relationship with America.