How to Set Goals

These are all critical achievements reflecting our shared objectives.

We need to set our goals and monitor our performance.

As a result, we are lagging behind on many of our targets.

In order to achieve our common objectives, our institutions must work together.

Eliminating poverty and inequality and promoting sustainable development of the economy and the environment are our common goals.

Here we need the awareness and engagement of the international community to achieve our goals.

As we persevere to achieve our development goals, being global citizens we look towards the international community.

Today, we have an opportunity to review the progress made and also chart the way forward to reach our common goals.

The lesson was clear we achieve our aims by defending our values and leading the forces of freedom.

While the challenges are great, so is our commitment to achieving our MDGs, even with our limited means.

In the end, it holds enormous potential to promote the achievement of our disarmament goals.

We welcome the recognition in the document of the important contribution of the private sector and civil society to our common objectives.

We hope that your skill and professional experience will be put to good use so that we can attain our objectives.

We call upon the United Nations to make every effort in that regard until those objectives are realized.

Importantly, there is already broad agreement on a set of shared goals.

So we know what we need to do, and we have tools available to achieve our goals.

There is no gainsaying that our treatment of the high seas will have an impact on our shared goals for international peace and security and sustainable development.

Specific actions are set out in each area that would help bring our goals to fruition.

We believe that a world order that is informed by a culture of peace is conducive to the attainment of our development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

The entry into force of the CTBT would be the first essential step towards achieving our desired goals of nuclear disarmament and non proliferation.

On many transnational issues, empowering others can help to accomplish one s own goals.

We express gratitude to the leadership of the Programme for the high level of interaction in achieving our common goals to improve the lives of the people in the affected territories.

In addition, it might be necessary to have a review conference in 2015 to adjust our targets and plans to the new realities.

Our national targets include a 50 per cent reduction in the number of people living below the poverty line during the period 2001 2010.

The launching of the Democracy Fund and the intention to continue work on the establishment of the Human Rights Council need to be consolidated, and our objectives in this regard should be reinforced and carried out.

We operate from the perspective that struggles for human rights, democracy and freedom are global issues, and our best opportunity for success is solidarity.

Unless we ensure respect for human rights and strive to achieve gender equality, we will not be able to achieve our objectives of security and sustainable development.

At this stage, I wonder whether it serves our purposes to go through this process of reiterating what happened in informal consultations.

When the complexity of a conflict is such that trans border factors are involved, factoring them in can only help us achieve our goals.

To ensure that our youth planning is on the right track to achieve our objectives, we are preparing to embark on an empirical study to determine a Malaysian youth behavioural and well being index.

Ethiopia's illegal occupation of our sovereign territories, with the apparent acquiescence of the Security Council, has hampered our development objectives and activities, imposing substantial losses on our economy.

Stronger nations must show transparent and genuine leadership in engendering majority support for our universal goals for the common good of all humanity.

I remain hopeful that, in our collective wisdom, we can avoid a divisive and costly process and achieve our goals for reform through the building of a genuine consensus on this vital matter.

If those resources are not properly channelled, we will not achieve our goals and, by not obtaining those benefits, will create ungovernability.

If all of our expectations of attaining our goals have not been met, we must do even more to further coordinate our efforts to find new mechanisms for resolving strategic problems.

It is also clear that differences remain among us on the appropriate methods for accomplishing our objectives, as reflected in the outcome document that is before us for adoption.

It is distasteful to put a price on human life, but the more we spend on safety, the less we will have for our other goals.

Japan will continue to participate actively in those discussions to achieve agreement on an effective post Bonn framework of cooperation that will contribute to the attainment of our shared objectives.

But if we don t have a strategy to accompany our targets, the world s governments might not accept such targets in the first place, or might accept them cynically, without any intention of actually meeting them.

In achieving our goals we will continue to rely on a Secretariat which is politically neutral and objective in the implementation of mandates and which is committed to the principles of international service, working under the direction of the intergovernmental bodies of the Organization.

To end duplication must be one of our primary goals in this area, whatever the final institutional structure, as we outlined in our national proposal on the reform of the intergovernmental human rights bodies.

From my statement, it is clear that HIV AIDS is one of the biggest obstacles to achieving our goals in the World Programme of Action for Youth, as well as the overall development of the youth.

That is why the Spanish delegation worked with many others to ensure that our common goals would be appropriately reflected in the outcome document of the summit (resolution 60 1), adopted this past 16 September.

And as we thought about our goals I should say that Interval is really a humanistic institution, in the classical sense that humanism, at its best, finds a way to combine clear eyed empirical research with a set of core values that fundamentally love and respect people.