The Asian Group therefore urged all Member States, particularly donor countries, and other donor institutions to consider increasing their voluntary contributions.

After all, donor countries are mired in debt and stagnation, while some recipient economies are growing 5 7 times faster than they are.

With the consent of the States concerned, the Committee intends to provide such assessment data to interested donor States and organizations.

Even today, donor governments aid efforts are poorly directed.

Lebanon greatly appreciates the efforts of donor States in that area.

He was concerned about the adverse impact of dwindling resources on the delivery of UNRWA services and appealed to donor States to increase their contributions to the Agency's budget.

Over that time, donor states have consistently honored their funding commitments.

There are two huge challenges now facing the Global Fund, and especially the donor countries that support it.

Speakers also called on donor States to increase funding for the work of UNODC in those areas.

Appeals to Member States which are donors to use their influence on the International Donor Community to overcome the external debt burden of developing and least developed OIC Member States.

Now it is time to re examine the ODA system. After all, donor countries are mired in debt and stagnation, while some recipient economies are growing 5 7 times faster than they are.

The international community must show that it will follow through on these promises. Donors must provide the help that developing countries urgently need.

Upon agreement with the States, the Committee will facilitate contacts to potential donors and assistance providers.

In 2002, all donor countries committed to make concrete efforts to reach 0.7 of national income in development aid to poor countries.

To that end, the Department for Disarmament Affairs is currently undertaking consultations with Member States, including donor countries.

But donors have not yet implemented this obvious and basic lesson.

We urge donor nations and relevant international organizations and institutions to fulfil their pledges of financial and technical assistance.

In this regard, we welcome the initiative of the Committee to start assessing the assistance needs of Member States and if the State concerned agrees to share such assessments with interested donor States and organizations.

10. Welcomes the contributions of donor countries to the strengthening of the Small Island Developing States Unit and the Small Island Developing States Information Network, and encourages other Member States to make contributions, in particular in support of the Network

Moreover, Malawi has a proven track record of sharply higher food yields when impoverished farmers are helped with inputs. Yet donors continue shipping expensive food aid while ignoring Malawi s desperate need to grow more food.

The Council further called on donor countries to help the ECOWAS member States implement those steps.

5. Invites all Member States, in particular donor States, relevant organs and organizations of the United Nations system, including the funds and programmes, to participate in the rehabilitation of the Semipalatinsk region

If donors keep giving only a little bit of help, but not enough to solve the problems of the poorest countries, these countries will never escape poverty's grip.

The Working Group decided to invite all Member States and other potential donors to contribute to the Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations in 2006.

Technical assistance activities of the TPB, including additional staff required for their delivery, are financed from voluntary contributions.

The cumulative percentage share of the top six donors was 69 per cent of the overall contributions from Member States ( 1.5 billion).

5. Invites all Member States, in particular donor States, relevant organs and organizations of the United Nations system, including the funds and programmes, to participate in the rehabilitation of the Semipalatinsk region

We hope that the financial commitments made by the donor countries will allow us to overcome this crisis, and that those commitments will not come at the expense of official development assistance.

The irony is that donors then respond with very expensive emergency food aid, which typically proves to be too little and too late.

Several speakers called for donor countries to come to the aid of other States with limited capacity and resources, including through the cancellation of foreign debt.

The developing direct relationship with States both donor and recipient States will, of course, be key to that, as will the relationship with organizations that can provide specialist advice.

The Security Council invites the CTC to accelerate the preparation of assessments of Member States' assistance needs so that these can be shared with the relevant States and, in due course, with interested donor States and organizations.

We would like to express our gratitude to those donor countries which have provided debt and debt servicing relief to the affected countries. That will undoubtedly help the States affected by the disaster to accelerate the implementation of their reconstruction and rehabilitation programmes.

But, while international organizations encourage additional ODA spending, donor country citizens are increasingly resistant.

Her delegation wished to underline the commitment of donor countries to assist partner governments in fulfilling their international obligations relating to money laundering, financing of terrorism and other crimes, including through the provision of technical assistance.

Among the donors to the Nicaragua programme, whom we thank for their support, are Sweden, Norway, Canada, the European Union, the United States and the United Kingdom.

Recipient governments might misuse the aid, preventing it from trickling down to those who would spend or invest it, or the money may be given on the condition that it is spent on goods or services from the donor country.

The oil companies should pay more. New donor countries like China can fill the financing gap left by the traditional donor countries.

Despite the economic crisis, Aid for Trade donor contributions to help the less fortunate have risen 10 per year since 2005, and major donors are on track to meet or exceed their pledges for future funds.

Donor governments, including the oil rich countries of the Middle East, should help finance the World Bank s new efforts.

In addition, people would be far less likely to complain that their money is being wasted or misused if they chose where it went.

The Group also urged all Member States and donors to increase their voluntary contributions to UNIDO and to consider contributing programmable funds.

It invited other States to do the same and urged donor countries to continue to contribute to the international humanitarian demining efforts.

Instead, the money could be returned to donor country citizens through tax deductions or income transfers, and they could decide how to help those in need.

National and personal contributions may have little room for further expansion, and donor nations will therefore need to increase their commitments if an effective response to the AIDS epidemic is to be mounted.