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September 17, 2009
Donor countries are failing to fulfill their promises to help developing countries combat poverty, disease, and other social problems. They are falling short of the amount pledged at the 2005 G8 summit by $35 billion annually. $20 billion of this amount is earmarked for African development.
UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro announced this at a press conference in New York, presenting the 2009 Millennium Development Goals Task Force report “Strengthening the Global Partnership for Development in Times of Crisis.”
As is well known, in September 2000, during a meeting of heads of state and government at UN Headquarters in New York, the UN Millennium Declaration was adopted. It outlined eight specific development goals aimed at reducing poverty and hunger, improving health, reducing maternal and child mortality, achieving gender equality, ensuring primary education for all, protecting the environment, and ensuring access to clean drinking water and sanitation.
The report's authors emphasized that the current financial and economic crisis is undermining progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Donor countries, facing economic turmoil, have begun to reduce their official development assistance.
"We made significant progress in strengthening the global development partnership, but that was before the financial and economic crisis. Now we need a new impetus," said Asha-Rose Migiro.
She emphasized that today's world is interdependent, and this reality cannot be ignored.
"The Millennium Development Goals are more than a set of targets. They represent solemn promises to the most vulnerable and poorest people on our planet," said Asha-Rose Migiro.
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