Five years ago we committed ourselves to the Millennium Declaration.

Nationally, we have committed ourselves to a governmental approach that ensures their participation.

Two hands raised to God, by force. A trickle of blood where the cuffs slice into our wrists.

Gathered here, we have pledged to take action to make the world more secure and more just.

The global imbalances could be cured, and conflicts avoided, only by greater international cooperation.

We have an ambitious commitment to add 50 billion a year to the fight for development within five years.

We have committed ourselves to challenging goals, in particular to reducing extreme poverty by half by the year 2015.

In that way, we will fulfil effectively the commitments undertaken to strengthen cooperation with the New Partnership for Africa's Development and with regional and subregional organizations.

We have also committed ourselves to addressing extreme poverty and hunger by redistributing land to the majority of our citizens, who had been condemned to conditions of squalor by years of colonialism and its vestiges.

We have committed 425 million towards a comprehensive package of disaster relief measures for disaster victims and reconstruction assistance.

Hand in hand with democratic security to defeat terrorism and to guarantee the freedoms of all my compatriots, along with transparency and citizen participation to defeat corruption, we have made a commitment to eradicate poverty and improve equity.

In that sense, we are grateful for the organization of these meetings, which will allow us to review the progress achieved in the implementation of the World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond, to which we committed ourselves 10 years ago.

The global imbalances could be cured, and conflicts avoided, only by greater international cooperation. But macroeconomic policy is not the only area that would benefit from better understanding between the two countries.