UN General Assembly
2007

international community. We have described all of this in detail in the Madagascar Action Plan. Read it, and you will see that we are already contributing to meeting the challenges that I have mentioned. We are committing ourselves to protecting and cherishing the environment, to healing the injuries of the past and to ending rampant climate change. In the Action Plan we came up with a set of very ambitious goals. We do what we can, despite our limited resources; we could do so much more if the international community helped us more. We are thankful to the donors who have increased their financial assistance; however, as a whole, these efforts have fallen far short of our expectations, especially if we are to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The amount of financial assistance is not even close to the promise of doubled aid to Africa. The donors are still far from honouring the numerous promises made here at the United Nations. They are far from addressing global challenges. The international approach to Africa lacks seriousness.