Millennium Goals

The Millennium Development Goals are part of the solution.

With such a new and decisive approach, the Millennium Goals can be achieved.

The Millennium Development Goals are the world s agreed goals to cut poverty, hunger, and disease.

We are still far from accomplishing the goals of the Millennium Declaration.

In 2000, the member governments agreed on the Millennium Development Goals.

Central America has a regional strategy that can complement the Millennium Goals.

Three of the eight MDGs involve bringing primary health services to the entire world s population.

On current trends, the millennium targets for the environment will not be met.

Regarding development, I wish to reiterate our call to fulfil the Millennium Goals.

Speakers endorsed the importance of focusing on the child related Millennium goals and related results.

We continue to believe that its principal focus should be on the implementation of the goals of the Millennium Declaration.

The MDG s are bold but achievable.

Important in this effort is Millennium Goal 8 international partnership.

Achieving the Goals is a moral and political imperative to ensure a more secure future for all humankind.

Such efforts are all the more significant in the context of the international community's endeavours to attain the Millennium Development Goals.

Clearly, we still have a long way to go to attain the Millennium Goals, especially in Africa.

At the start of the new millennium, the world s leaders got together to adopt the Millennium Development Goals, the global commitment to halve extreme poverty by 2015.

Indeed, Bolton even wanted to eliminate any reference to the MDG.

The United Nations member states adopted the Millennium Development Goals in September 2000.

In addition to these issues, financing proposals to achieve the MDG s should be discussed from a central banker s perspective.

Yet the Millennium Project report indicated that there was limited and uneven progress on gender equality targets.

I have the honour to transmit to you herewith the report of the Government of Guatemala, entitled Millennium Goals Second progress report of Guatemala (see annex).

(c) Disaster risk reduction is an integral part of sustainable development and one of the essential prerequisites for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals

In that regard, it is heart warming that the African Business Roundtable (ABR), over which I preside, was identified in the United Nations Millennium Project report as a critical partner for attaining development goals.

They should agree to address shared global goals, including the fight against poverty, hunger, and disease (the Millennium Development Goals), as well as climate change and environmental destruction.

National level efforts include intensifying actions to develop and implement national targets that complement and reinforce those of the Plan of Action and the Millennium Declaration (resolution 55 2) and the increased mobilization of resources to meet those targets.

Let us sprint towards the achievement of the Millennium Goals, and not jog as though it were a marathon.

In particular, I appeal to developed countries to fulfil their commitment as clearly stated in goal 8 of the Millennium Development Goals.

That not only delays development, but casts a shroud of pessimism over the very achievement of the Millennium Goals.

Countries representing three quarters of the developing world's population are on a pace to meet the targets of the Millennium Declaration by 2015.

The strong focus of the goals of the Millennium Declaration on children has created a positive synergy with the goals of A world fit for children and convergence of national planning processes around a common set of goals.

While the majority of countries are focusing their national plans on the achievement of the millennial goals, others are already able to pursue a more ambitious Millennium Development Goal plus agenda.

So far, the Global Fund has addressed MDG 6, which is focused on the control of specific killer diseases.

In no year has Africa, as a continent, achieved the 7 average growth rate required by the MDG s.

Very few countries in Africa have posted growth rates consistent with the MDG s threshold.

In setting the Millennium Goals, we recognized that, in order to re establish world order, the root causes of anger, despair, injustice and hatred must be addressed.

Achieving gender equality by 2005 and universal primary education by 2015 were two of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that were harder to attain.

The time has arrived for a massive effort by voluntary organizations to take up the MDG s through private action.

If more financial aid is combined with good governance in poor countries, then the Millennium Development Goals can be achieved on time.

This failure will make remote any hope of reaching the other Millennium goals in the fight against poverty.

Lagos There has been considerable progress on achieving the Millennium Development Goals since their inception in 2000.

Five years ago, we met here in New York at the Millennium Summit and agreed on eight development goals that we believed were realistic and achievable.

These same lessons can be applied to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG s), the targets for fighting poverty, disease, and hunger that the world s governments adopted in 2000.

The obvious step to address MDGs 4 and 5 is to explicitly expand the Global Fund s financing mandate.