The major challenge is to translate pledges to adhere to these values into concrete action through a variety of practical initiatives.

Independent undertakings

They must now deliver.

International commitments

The second is a set of understandings and commitments among the major advanced and developing countries to rebalance the global economy in order to restore aggregate demand and growth.

But the commitments by the G8 and other key partners such as the Nordic states and the Netherlands also have played a critical role.

Improving the monitoring of pledges and disbursements

Those pledges have now come in, from 154 countries, including the major emitters, and they fall far short of what is required. To fathom the gap between what the pledges would achieve and what is required, we need to go back to the language that everyone accepted in Rio.

Across the world, commitments are forthcoming.

It is an addition to, not a substitute for, commitments already made.

Speakers called upon donor countries to move from commitments to concrete actions.

(i) Multilateral obligations for combating terrorism

I call on them not to backslide on these honourable commitments.

The major challenge for us all is to translate pledges to adhere to these values into concrete action through a variety of practical initiatives, as called for in the Programme of Action for the Dialogue among Civilizations.

Although still controversial, the need for adequate policy space did not imply reneging on existing commitments but rather making them clearer and ensuring that they worked to further development.

The problem is certainly not a lack of commitments, including those made at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.

It saddens me to say that, to date, only a minor percentage of the pledges have been fulfilled.

Lastly, there have been a number of recent pledges to increase bilateral and multilateral funding to tackle malaria.

The summit meeting held at Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, on 8 February 2005 produced a series of commitments including a halt to violence and military activities aimed at rebuilding trust and breaking the cycle of bloodshed.

And he used the chairmanship to elicit commitments to resist protectionism.

In operative paragraph 15, we would delete the words and of the assessment of the level and extent of aid delivery vis à vis pledges .

For the entire period through 2004, payments against pledges stood at 91 per cent.

The third risk is that industrial policies run afoul of international commitments and obligations.

There were pledges of political integration based on shared values. There were people to people links.

Those pledges do not include contributions from individual EU member States.

Important progress has been made to redeem those pledges and to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

African Governments have been particularly responsive to the Hyogo Framework, building on ongoing commitments to disaster reduction.

Third, some part of our global stimulus should come from commitments that the international community has made on aid.

Rather, what has been missing is the fulfillment of these commitments.

(iii) Other multilateral obligations for combating transnational organized crime

Informal interactive round table on the theme Young people making commitments matter

Pledges in July 2004 totalled 1.37 billion.

In 2000, the Heads of State and Government of Member States made a number of historic commitments, which were set out in the Millennium Declaration.

These pledges, reformulated as specific, measurable targets, became the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

These commitments continue to serve as the extensive and fundamental legislative authority for the way forward.

The Oslo donors conference and its outcome are a great testimony to that support.

It is unfortunate that the necessary political will to build on previous undertakings and commitments could not be mustered.

Given the number of commissions he began receiving, he had to rely on his team to work on multiple projects simultaneously.

The Sudan requires considerable resources for reconstruction, the rehabilitation of the displaced and refugees and the promotion and strengthening of peace.

Global oversight of resource extraction is a perfect economic development issue for the G 20, not least because the theatrical pledges of aid to poor countries that were the stuff of G 8 meetings have now been recognized as empty rhetoric.

Most of the credit for these changes goes to Africans who demanded an end to the misrule of the past. But the commitments by the G8 and other key partners such as the Nordic states and the Netherlands also have played a critical role.

We have as our theme for the General Assembly implementation of our summit undertakings.

None lived up to the promises made or the potential that they held.

The Palestinian National Authority has taken a number of steps to meet its Sharm el Sheikh commitments.

Building on this momentum, the campaigns for debt relief, trade reform, and increasing aid to poor countries have gained traction. Yet, while pledges to increase development assistance have soared, short term funding is woefully inadequate.