WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, April 27 (Hina) - Countries can reduce poverty in the world by half and achieve the Millennium Goals by 2015 if they carry out necessary reforms and receive assistance from abroad this year. Next year it can be
late, the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Monday.
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, April 27 (Hina) - Countries can reduce poverty in
the world by half and achieve the Millennium Goals by 2015 if they
carry out necessary reforms and receive assistance from abroad this
year. Next year it can be late, the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
said on Monday.#L#
At the 2000 assembly of the the United Nations, 189 countries adopted
UN Millennium Development Goals which included plans to eradicate
extreme poverty and hunger by reducing by half the proportion of
people living on less than a dollar a day and reducing by half the
proportion of people who suffer from hunger by 2015. The plans also
include the fight against AIDS, the reduction of child mortality,
universal primary education for everybody and a global partnership for
development.
The goals can be accomplished only by fulfilling the commitments from
the 2002 Monterrey Consensus on fairer trade between the rich and the
poor, Annan told the joint annual assembly of the UN Economic and
Social Council (ECOSOC), the World Bank, the International Monetary
Fund and the World Trade Organisation.
Croatia's representative at this session was Deputy Governor of the
central bank (HNB), Boris Vujcic.
At the assembly, Croatia aligned itself with a statement of the
European Union which was presented by Charlie McCreevy, Finance
Minister of Ireland, which now holds the rotating presidency over the
Union.
The EU statement was given on behalf of EU member-states, countries
which will join it on May 1, candidate countries and countries covered
by the Stabilisation and Association process.
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