UN General Assembly
2004

Lesotho start a robust programme of antiretroviral treatment, while Mr. Morrisís initiatives have ensured food supply for vulnerable and orphaned children. Interventions of this nature give credence to the lofty declarations adopted at various international summits on the HIV/AIDS pandemic, as they complement and strengthen our own initiatives and limited resources. My delegation reiterates the call for increased support for the New Partnership for Africaís 13 Development (NEPAD), the framework for achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Africa. It is yet another mechanism that will enable African countries to fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic, to eradicate poverty and to reduce the high unemployment rate. In the same context, the Millennium Challenge Account is indeed a worthy and commendable initiative by the Government of the United States of America to launch the least developed countries on the road to sound and sustainable development. The prevailing situations in Western Sahara and in Cuba continue to be of major concern. My de1egation will ó because it must ó repeat the statement we have made on many previous occasions: that the people of