联合国文件/part0362

Although what we have agreed upon falls short of what we set out to accomplish, we have to put details into what we need to implement with the same spirit of collective dedication and a sense of common purpose.

We should not allow political expediency and posturing to rob us of our declared objectives.

The glaring indignities of poverty, hunger, illiteracy and preventable disease amidst the glamour and opulence of prosperity in some quarters of the world should be relegated to the dustbin of history.

That is achievable if we implement the commitments that we resolved to undertake at the summit that has just ended.

At Monterrey we agreed on a framework for partnership.

For some members of the G-8, Gleneagles transformed a 30-year-old pledge to devote 0.7 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) to official development assistance into a timetable; for others, it resulted in predictable increases.

Debt sustainability has finally given way to debt cancellation for some countries, including my own, the United Republic of Tanzania.

That is a tremendous relief and will make a significant quantitative and qualitative difference to our development programmes and priorities.

Trade and investment have also received acceptance as being central to growth and development.

The Doha trade and development round of negotiations, to take place in Hong Kong later this year, should be completed with agreements on pending issues such as subsidies.

The political capital generated at the summit should bring about a convergence of resources from our development partners and the economic, political, fiscal and institutional reforms already under way in Africa, and result in predictable and implementable development programmes.

The issue of absorptive capacity should not arise when there is coherence and coordination among our partners within a collaborative framework at country level to mainstream assistance into national development strategies and priorities.

The United Republic of Tanzania has already complied with the critical element of paragraph 22 (a) of the 2005 World Summit Outcome (resolution 60/1), which calls upon developing countries to adopt and implement comprehensive national strategies to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDG).

We are ahead in achieving the goal regarding universal primary education, namely, nine years before the 2015 deadline.

We are on-course in achieving the goals regarding access to safe drinking water, reducing child mortality and promoting gender equality in political participation and decision-making structures.

With steady assistance and our macroeconomic and political stability, we should get closer to achieving most of the Goals by 2015.

In sub-Saharan Africa individual countries are accelerating reforms and improving the climate for investment.

Frontloading aid flows and innovative new sources of finance to bridge the financial gap in achieving the MDGs should be scaled up, as should aid-in-trade to overcome supply side constraints.

Subsidies and market-access issues should also be addressed simultaneously in the international development agenda.

Subsidies and market-access issues should also be addressed simultaneously in the international development agenda.

The outcome of the Helsinki process, with its wealth of ideas, adds tremendous value both to the reform process launched last week and to the overall international development agenda.

It addresses political deficits and requirements to bring about purposeful development and democratic changes in this era of globalization.

The relationship between development and security at the national and international levels has clearly emerged during the debate and negotiations on the 2005 World Summit Outcome, on which I do not need to dwell here.

The arms race in conventional and nuclear weapons can only bring the world to apocalyptic brinkmanship — by design or by accident.