UN General Assembly
2008

important strategic opportunities ahead to begin to do so. The G-77 and China believe that we could begin with today’s high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals. At the midpoint we, as an international community, are in danger of missing most of the MDG targets. We have not provided the resources, the conducive international environment and the cooperation to ensure that all developing countries can meet their specific targets. Several sources were identified in Monterrey through which the financing could be mobilized to address the commitments to tackle many of the challenges, including those summarized in the Millennium Development Goals. Let us use the process leading up to the Follow- up International Conference on Financing for Development, and the Conference itself, to offer specific proposals on how we will provide and use resources, and on how we will set about shaping the international economic environment in order to speed achievement of those objectives and targets, as well as increase the participation of developing countries. In December 2007, the Bali process reaffirmed