The regional level offers an opportunity to exchange national experiences on the necessary interrelated policy issues which are of crucial importance for achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

More must be done to focus on crucial issues, such as emigration, implementation of the Millennium Development Goals, poverty in its entirety and South South cooperation.

Unless we all pick up speed, most Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will not be met by 2015.

In most developing countries, the availability of resources to finance investments in infrastructures has been among the critical factors influencing prospects and capacities for harnessing potentials.

The issue of the centrality of employment to poverty reduction has been lacking from international policy discussions, with the exception of the inclusion of youth employment in the Millennium Development Goals.

We are extremely pleased that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which provide each of our countries with a set of focused benchmarks for addressing critical development issues, have been maintained in full.

3. We reaffirm the solidarity amongst the countries in Asia and the Pacific region and recognize the critical importance of the regional and global partnership and cooperation in the achievement of the MDGs, including to assist those having difficulties in achieving the MDGs.

Nigeria s Critical Election

The moment of truth has come.

An adequate balance within the services negotiations, as well as transparent and inclusive processes, is also crucial for achieving the development objectives of this Round.

While the developed world can and should play a bigger part in order to reach the MDGs, the developing countries bear the critical responsibility for their own development.

His paper showed that that the right to development and a rights based approach had not taken hold in most country reports on the Goals.

Given present trends, most African countries will be very far from achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.

Showdown in Egypt

The focus on assessing progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) after five years occupied much of the attention of the General Assembly for most of the year.

All of the actions taken under the Zero Hunger programme are part of the crucial transformations under way in Brazil and contribute directly to five of the eight Millennium Goals.

Halting the spread is not only a Millennium Development Goal in itself it is a prerequisite for reaching most of the others.

Most of the United Nations specialized agencies and programmes involved in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals had worked in close cooperation with indigenous peoples.

Similar linkages exist between other provisions of the Convention and the critical areas of concern in the Platform for Action.

In regard to the sexual and reproductive health of women, Fiji had already achieved most of the goals established by the International Conference on Population and Development and was on track to achieve its Millennium Development Goals by 2015.

MTM education would in most cases be a better way to reach the goals and achieve real capability building, in Sen's sense.

Unfortunately, most developing countries will not be able to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, given current growth rates and levels of international support.

Similarly, implementation of the commitments undertaken by Member States under the critical areas of concern of the Platform for Action can directly support the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals at national level.

Another crucial factor is continued violence.

Given the crucial importance of population factors for development, the full implementation of the Programme of Action and the key actions for its further implementation3 will significantly contribute to the achievement of the universally agreed development goals, including those in the Millennium Declaration.

If central banks save their rate cut bullets for a later day, they may find that their ammunition is useless.

The European Union believed that the current triennial comprehensive policy review should keep in mind the crucial importance of the United Nations development system for the coordinated and integrated follow up process to implementation of the Millennium Development Goals, to be held in 2005.

So the question is what's happening during this critical two month period?

This is where the Marshall Plan of American support became crucial.

These genetic clones had a few crucial differences.

The crucial questions concern the economics of our response.

The decisive moment came when the army abstained from suppressing the protests.

Reaching an accord in Copenhagen is critical.

National development strategies were also crucial.

Most developing countries continue to require external financial assistance to directly address the goals of poverty eradication, infrastructure and skills development and creation of capacity for production and trade.

UNICEF offers Governments, global funding partners and other United Nations agencies a quality controlled facility through which to make cost efficient use of resources aimed at ensuring that commodities (such as vaccines and school supplies) critical to achieving the Millennium Development Goals are available to families.

In keeping with its principles of opposing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, solving conflicts by peaceful means and combating terrorism in all its forms, Uruguay has signed and ratified most of the existing regional and international instruments with those aims.

We look forward to working with our Council colleagues on this critical issue.

Procurement is arguably one of the organisation's critical activities.

The Secretary General has addressed many issues that are critical to the future of our world's citizens.

We are conscious of the crucial importance of tackling document fraud in order to curb organized crime and terrorism.

Most strategies and actions proposed to meet the objectives set in Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) and the related presidential statements provide a long term framework for action and for achieving concrete results in the period between 2005 and 2007.

But in most low income countries and in nearly all the least developed countries, the maximum that can be raised by such efforts will fall far short of what is needed to reach the Millennium Development Goals.

From this perspective, Liu Xiaobo s critical views were indeed subversive.

This was never more obvious than in the deciding days and weeks of the global financial crisis.