UN General Assembly
2011

effectiveness. It should also be noted that fragile States require a period of transition with greater flexibility in donor funding, instead of a policy of one size fits all, which can only interfere with the individual processes of each country. A high-level forum on development assistance is scheduled to take place next November in Pusan, South Korea. In that forum we will evaluate progress made in achieving the Millennium Development Goals and will also set new action frameworks. Under-developed countries focus on meeting Millennium Development Goals every day, although it will be very difficult to meet them by 2015. These countries face daily challenges and difficulties in pursuing objectives to combat poor administration and reduce poverty. Democracy is a process and not an end in itself. Most of these countries are young democracies and have the arduous task of changing the mindset of their people scarred by conflict. They must also deal with internal and external pressures that prevent them from paying too much attention to a series of universal criteria that