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[Claudio]

From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) 


UN 2005 WORLD SUMMIT

14-16 September 2005 at United Nations Headquarters in New York

Website: http://www.un.org/ga/59/hl60_plenarymeeting.html 

The World Summit  is expected to bring together more than 170 Heads of State and Government: the largest gathering of world leaders in history. It is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to take bold decisions in the areas of development, security, human rights and reform of the United Nations. 

The agenda is based on an achievable set of proposals outlined in March by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in his report In Larger Freedom (www.un.org/largerfreedom ). These have since been reviewed by Governments in a series of informal consultations. The latest version and additional details can be found at www.un.org/ga/59/hl60_plenarymeeting .

Proposals in the area of development call for breakthroughs in debt relief and trade liberalization, and increases in aid to revitalize infrastructure and improve health and education services, in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), including cutting extreme poverty in half by 2015 (www.un.org/millenniumgoals ).

 

Developing countries are being asked to devise national strategies to meet the MDG targets and to facilitate transparent and accountable governance, while developed countries are being urged to increase aid and reduce trade barriers, debt and other burdens that hamper development. It has been proposed to set up an International Financing Facility that would make official development assistance (ODA) more predictable and accessible. 

 

Many donors are on track to meet the target of dedicating 0.7 per cent of gross national income to official development assistance (ODA)  by the year 2015. Others have promised to make substantial increases in ODA over the next ten years. Leaders meeting at the Group of 8 Summit in early July agreed to increase annual aid flows by at least $50 billion as of 2010, with at least half of that increase to be directed at Africa, and to write off the debts of eighteen of the world's poorest countries.



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