UN General Assembly
2010

and human rights, personal advancement through education, better health for all and harnessing technology for sustainable development. It is on account of this abiding faith and belief in the viability and primacy of the United Nations that, in spite of our resource limitations, we have over the years faithfully fulfilled our obligations to this Organization. The deliberations of the recently concluded High- level Plenary Meeting on the review of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), our global blueprint for monitoring universal progress towards shared development goals, clearly cast light on our strengths, weaknesses and vulnerabilities, individually and collectively. For this reason we need to redouble our efforts to accelerate the implementation of the MDGs in the remaining five years. Botswana is classified as an upper-middle-income country. However, despite having enjoyed stability and steady economic growth over a sustained period of time, the country still has to contend with a plethora of development challenges — ironically, in an environment of diminished international development assistance and support. The vulnerability of economies such as that of my country became evident during the