UN General Assembly
2006

national development strategies. In this context, the Government has drafted a national poverty reduction strategy based on speeding up economic growth and access to basic social services, as well as improving governance. In order to implement this policy, the Government and its development partners have begun programmes and projects dealing with priority sectors, such as education, health, integrated rural development, infrastructure, the provision of water, and strengthening human and institutional capacities. In the same spirit, the drafting in February 2005 of the second follow-up report on the Millennium Development Goal made it possible to assess the progress made, note the shortcomings and outline the prospects of achieving the Goals by 2015. We regard this as an opportunity to urge our development partners to swiftly implement the entire set of internationally recognized development initiatives, including the goals and objectives of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001-2010. We reaffirm the urgent need to strengthen official development assistance and to assure the long-term viability of debt by cancelling all public and bilateral