UN General Assembly
2008

Hence, we must heed the lessons of history and provide appropriate encouragement and interventions to help States restore good governance and abide by the principles of democracy. Yesterday’s high-level meeting on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) was a timely reminder, not of what we have achieved by the midway point, but what decisive actions must be taken urgently if the time-bound targets set at the dawn of the new millennium are to be met. Samoa participated in the recent Accra meeting on aid effectiveness, which further refined the pathways to the MDGs review just concluded and the International Conference on 08-52272 30 Financing for Development in Doha in November 2008. Our strategic plan for 2008 to 2012 is a comprehensive development framework linked to the budget process for the implementation of the MDGs, with strategic targeting of those goals on which we have seen minimal progress through priority resource allocation. We are grateful to the Governments of the People’s Republic of China and the United Kingdom for their support through debt relief. Similarly, we want