UN General Assembly
2005

and the Human Rights Council. Let us introduce the processes required to strengthen Secretariat management. Diplomacy is often about compromise. That word has been used frequently in describing the World Summit Outcome document (resolution 60/1). However, compromise should not be used as a synonym for regression. Development is a pillar of the United Nations mandate, and the MDGs are international obligations. Over the years, the development dialogue has resulted in a number of key international documents, which bear witness to the progress on poverty-related issues and the ways in which we have agreed to address those vital challenges. Johannesburg and Monterrey are prominent among them. While it is important to reaffirm the agreed international development framework, it is equally necessary to move forward. Comprehensive debt relief, on which there was progress earlier this year at Gleneagles, and better trade access to the markets of developed countries, which must be an outcome of the Doha round, chart the way forward. The road to the achievement of the MDGs on which we set out five years ago has been an uneven