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UN Global Compact for the 3rd Millennium. United Nations Millennium Declaration. Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger

The Millennium Declaration, adopted on September 8, 2000 by the 55th session of the UN General Assembly (Millennium Assembly), proclaimed the high principles of world development in the new millennium, setting 8 strategic goals for humanity:

Eliminating extreme poverty and hunger.

2. Universal primary education.

3. Equality between men and women. Empowering women.

4. Reducing child mortality.

5. Improving maternal health.

6. Combating HIV, malaria and other diseases.

7. Ensuring environmental sustainability.

8. Global Partnership for Development.

To monitor their achievement in 2003, at the 58th session of the UN General Assembly, the report “Implementation of the UN Millennium Declaration” for the period until 2015 identified 18 tasks, the degree of implementation of which is assessed using 48 measurable indicators. These objectives and indicators were a clarification of the proposals set out in the report “Plan for the Implementation of the UN Millennium Declaration” at the 56th session of the UN General Assembly in 2001.

Back at the end of 1998, the 53rd UN General Assembly declared the 2000 session the Millennium Assembly, and already in November 1999, in order to promote the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by providing the world community with objective values ​​of development indicators, which are based on data from national and world statistics, it was PARIS21 (Partnership in statistics for development in the 21st century) partnership was established. The UN, OECD, World Bank, International currency board and Eurostat. The partnership's motto is noteworthy: “Statistics are the eyes of policymakers.” The Partnership focused on promoting the development of national statistical systems in underdeveloped and developing countries through its core program, National Strategies for the Development of Statistics (NSDS). In 2000, the partnership established the Trust Fund for the Development of Statistical Services (TFSCB), which is managed by the World Bank. The fund's assets are formed from different sources and are distributed in the form of grants to developing countries.

An analysis of reports submitted by countries to the UN on achieving the Millennium Goals showed (A Review of Energy in National MDG Reports, January 2007, UNDP) that energy topics are not sufficiently represented in them, although each of the goals cannot be effectively achieved without adequate energy supply. However, among the list of 48 indicators, only three (27th - the amount of energy per unit of GDP, 28th - carbon dioxide emissions per capita and 29th - the share of the population using solid fuel) are directly related to energy. These indicators relate to Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability. Some reports linked energy indicators to Goal 1: End extreme poverty and hunger. Obviously, life will require the inclusion of energy indicators in the system for monitoring the achievement of the Millennium Goals, since energy poverty itself will not be eliminated. Long-term programs with large investments will be required budget funds and attracting major financial sponsors. The historical experience of even such large countries, like the USA and the USSR, confirms the truth of these words.

The following trends can be expected:

1. Energy parameters will increasingly be included in indicators for achieving the Millennium Goals, as well as in other international development programs.

2. Monitoring the status of these indicators will require the development of state statistical potential. Energy statistics will become increasingly linked to other types of statistics.

3. Methods of official and corporate statistics will become more comprehensive due to the formation of a system of multi-level indicators and to a greater extent tied to the capabilities of national information systems.

In January 2007, the UN review “Energy in National Reports to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals” was published based on the analysis of 112 reports (MDGR) different countries for the use of keywords in them: electricity, fuel, gas, etc. It turned out that 42% of the reports did not contain the word “energy” at all. About 32% of reports mentioned this word within one paragraph. Only about a quarter of the reports devoted a page or more to analyzing the energy situation in the country. Of the 93 reports that mentioned energy, 74 discussed it in relation to Objective 7, and the remaining 19 reports discussed it in the introduction or in relation to Objective 1. The most common report link to energy was air pollution. In addition, reports from African countries mention energy in relation to deforestation due to the use of wood for energy purposes. However, any of the Millennium Goals can only be achieved with adequate energy supply. As stated in the report, today 1.6 billion people do not have access to electricity, and 2.5 billion people use only traditional fuels - wood, agricultural waste and manure - for heating their homes and cooking. This situation limits the possibilities economic development and poverty reduction. Energy should become the leading tool sustainable development; its indicators must objectively characterize energy supply and energy safety, and energy statistics data must be timely and reliable. It has been noted that countries that primarily need to improve energy supply have the least developed statistics.

Poor countries face three key energy challenges:

1) dependence on biofuel, the use of which has a harmful effect on the health of the population and the condition environment;

2) limited access to clean energy supply (electricity);

3) extremely low incomes of the population, which limits the use of electricity in everyday life and social services.

To manage the solution of these problems, it is necessary to monitor the values ​​of a number of indicators, such as the share of biomass in household energy consumption, coverage of the population and the social sector with electricity, electricity tariffs, and the share of household income used to pay for the “consumer energy basket” of electricity supply. Sustainable development programs achieve good results. For example, the full electrification of Thailand (from 7 to 98%) was achieved mainly in 8 years (from 1978 to 1986) based on the Accelerated Rural Electrification Program. IN East Asia between 1985 and 2005, the population without access to electricity fell by approximately 700 million people. Periods of qualitative change in energy in global regions are becoming very short. During this time, it is possible not only to build energy generating facilities and energy infrastructure, but also to create sustainable energy supply channels, which cannot but affect world prices. We can expect two similar “waves of energy consumption” of 500 million people each for the regions of South Asia (Indonesia, India, etc.) and Sub-Saharan Africa (48 countries). Mitigating their impact on the global fuel and energy market can only be achieved through joint efforts at the global level.

Reports on the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals show a close connection between energy and macroeconomic development indicators, between increased energy savings and a reduction in poverty. Developing countries with relatively high level the urban population associates energy supply with improved education, healthcare, international trade, environmental quality. Here are some examples of the impact of energy supply on achieving the Millennium Goals.

Goal 1. Access to modern energy ensures development. Electric lighting helps to increase occupancy and work hours. Electrically driven machines provide increased production and increased productivity. Local energy using local resources creates conditions for the development of local business. Affordable energy for cooking, heating water and lighting reduces household costs and improves quality of life. Most foods consumed as food require hot processing. Available energy allows food to be better preserved - by smoking, drying, refrigerating and freezing. Energy allows for irrigation, which increases food production.

Goal 2. Energy allows you to create a more favorable environment for the child (access to clean water, sanitation, lighting, comfortable home climate). Schools provided with electricity improve learning conditions, educational process supported by media and information systems, office equipment, instruments and the like. Transport energy makes it possible to visit remote schools. Energy efficiency in educational institutions frees up time and money to direct them towards improving the educational process.

Goal 3. When energy supply is available, the share of women’s labor in household and manual labor in the house and in agriculture. Clean energy used for cooking reduces air pollution in the home and improves health. Good evening lighting creates time for evening activities, meaningful relaxation and personal development. Street lighting improves women's personal safety. Affordable energy creates conditions for the development of women's entrepreneurship.

Goal 4: Clean energy reduces air pollution and respiratory infections, which kill about 11 million children worldwide each year. Hot food, boiled water improve food absorption and reduce the likelihood of intestinal infections. Electricity allows water to be pumped and purified.

Goal 5. Energy supply creates conditions for the use of more advanced medical equipment to preserve the health of mothers and children. Energy supply frees pregnant women from heavy self made and reduces the threat to her and the child’s life.

Goal 6. The availability of electricity in hospitals and clinics creates the opportunity to treat and receive patients in the evening and at night, and transport patients to provide them with emergency care. Energy is necessary for sterilizing medical instruments, storing medications, and the like.

Goal 7. Energy ensures growth in agricultural productivity. Excluding traditional fuels from the energy sector reduces pressure on the ecosystem. Better energy technologies help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Almost every modern high-performance process requires energy beyond muscle power to perform it, or at least to control it.

Russia is objectively interested in solving these problems. Firstly, there are quite a lot of municipalities and regions in the country that require the creation or serious modernization of the power supply system. Secondly, the world's rapidly growing energy consumption distorts economic demand, replacing it with political demands, which inevitably complicates the international situation. Russia, of course, needs to actively participate in the implementation of programs to achieve the Millennium Goals on its own territory and abroad, developing sustainable energy supply, using indicative development management tools, integrating the potential of state statistics with the potential of international statistical organizations. On the vast territory of Russia, all the world's energy problems can be found to one degree or another - energy poverty, the need to create long-term energy reserves distributed throughout the territory, and the formation of a system for effectively responding to large-scale energy emergencies. The methodology for developing Russian regional socio-economic development programs is poorly integrated with similar international programs and is not based on a system of international indicators, which does not allow for the effective use of world best practice. Such detachment, which, moreover, does not lead to greater objectivity and completeness of information, hinders the achievement of leading positions in the negotiation processes. But Russia must participate in the global fuel and energy complex through not only the exploitation own resources, but also participation in expanding the fuel and raw material base throughout the world with the goal of reversing the shift in the nature of international relations from political to market.

Section IV of the Millennium Declaration is dedicated to environmental protection. It says, in particular: “We must spare no effort in ridding all humanity, and above all our children and grandchildren, from the threat of living on a planet that will be hopelessly damaged by human activity and whose resources will no longer be enough to satisfy their needs. We reaffirm our support for the principles of sustainable development, including those set out in Agenda 21 agreed at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. We are committed to adhering to the new ethic of caring and responsible attitude towards nature in all our environmental activities."
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United Nations
Approved by General Assembly resolution 55/2 of September 8, 2000.

General Assembly,
accepts the following Declaration:
United Nations Millennium Declaration

I. Values ​​and principles

1. We, the heads of state and government, have gathered in Headquarters United Nations in New York from 6 to 8 September 2000, at the dawn of the new millennium, to reaffirm our faith in the Organization and its Charter as the inviolable foundations of a more peaceful, prosperous and just world.
2. We acknowledge that in addition to individual responsibility We also have a collective responsibility to our own societies to advance the principles of human dignity, justice and equality at the global level. Therefore, as leaders, we are responsible to all the inhabitants of the Earth, especially to the most vulnerable among them, and in particular to the children of the world, to whom the future belongs.
3. We reaffirm our commitment to the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, which have proven to be timeless and universal. Their relevance and ability to serve as a source of inspiration increase as countries and peoples become increasingly interconnected and interdependent.
4. We are determined to establish a just and lasting peace throughout the world in accordance with the purposes and principles of the Charter. We reaffirm our commitment to support all efforts to ensure sovereign equality all states; respect for their territorial integrity and political independence; settlement of disputes by peaceful means and in accordance with the principles of justice and international law; the right to self-determination of peoples still under colonial rule and foreign occupation; non-interference in the internal affairs of states; respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms; compliance equal rights for everyone without distinction of race, gender, language or religion; and international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian nature.
5. We believe that the main challenge facing us today is to ensure that globalization becomes a positive force for all peoples of the world. This is because, although globalization offers great opportunities, its benefits are now being enjoyed very unevenly and its costs are unevenly distributed. We recognize that developing countries and countries with economies in transition face particular challenges in addressing this main task. That is why globalization can only become fully inclusive and equitable through broad and persistent efforts to forge a common future based on our common humanity in all its diversity. These efforts must include policies and measures at the global level that respond to the needs of developing countries and countries with economies in transition, and that are designed and implemented with their effective participation.
6. We believe that it is essential important For international relations in the 21st century will have a number of fundamental values. These include:
Freedom. Men and women have the right to live and raise their children in human conditions, free from hunger and fear of violence, oppression and injustice. The best guarantee of these rights is a democratic form of government based on broad participation and the will of the people.
Equality. No person and no country should be denied the benefits of development. Equality of rights and opportunities for men and women must be guaranteed.
Solidarity. Global problems must be addressed with a fair distribution of costs and burdens, in accordance with fundamental principles of equality and social justice. Those who suffer or are least favored deserve help from those who are most advantaged.
Tolerance. With all the diversity of religions, cultures and languages, people must respect each other. Differences within and between societies should neither be feared nor persecuted, but should be cherished as humanity's greatest asset. A culture of peace and dialogue among all civilizations should be actively promoted.
Respect for nature. The basis of protection and rational use all living organisms and natural resources prudence must be exercised in accordance with the tenets of sustainable development. Only in this way can we preserve for our descendants the enormous wealth that nature has given us. Current unsustainable production and consumption patterns must be changed for our future well-being and the well-being of our descendants.
General duty. The responsibility for managing global economic and social development, as well as addressing threats to international peace and security, must be shared among the peoples of the world and carried out on a multilateral basis. The United Nations must play a central role in this as the most universal and most representative organization in the world.
7. To translate these shared values ​​into concrete action, we have identified key goals to which we attach particular importance.

II. Peace, security and disarmament

8. We will make every effort to free our peoples from the scourge of wars, whether within states or between states, wars that last decade claimed more than 5 million lives. We will also work to eliminate the threats posed by weapons mass destruction.
9. We are therefore determined:
strengthen respect for the rule of law, both internationally and internal affairs, and in particular to ensure compliance by Member States with decisions of the International Court of Justice, in pursuance of the Charter of the United Nations, in any cases to which they are parties;
enhance the effectiveness of the United Nations in maintaining peace and security by providing it with the resources and tools it needs for conflict prevention, peaceful dispute resolution, peacekeeping operations, post-conflict peacebuilding and reconstruction. In this regard, we take note of the report of the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations and request the General Assembly to promptly consider its recommendations;
strengthen cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations in accordance with the provisions Chapter VIII Charter;
ensure compliance by participating States with treaties in areas such as arms control and disarmament, and with international humanitarian law and human rights law and encourage all States to consider signing and ratifying the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court;
take concerted action to combat international terrorism and accede as soon as possible to all relevant international conventions;
redouble our efforts to implement our commitment to curb the world drug problem;
intensify our efforts to combat transnational crime in all its aspects, including human trafficking and smuggling and money laundering;
minimize the adverse effects of United Nations economic sanctions on innocent populations; ensure that such sanctions regimes are regularly reviewed; and eliminate the adverse consequences of sanctions for third parties;
strive to eliminate weapons of mass destruction, especially nuclear weapons, and keep open all available options to achieve this goal, including the possibility of convening international conference to determine ways and means of elimination nuclear threat;
take concerted action to stop the illicit trafficking of small arms and light weapons, especially through greater transparency in arms transfers and support for regional disarmament measures, taking into account all recommendations of the upcoming United Nations conference on the issue illegal trade small arms and light weapons;
Call upon all States to consider acceding to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, as well as the amended Mine Protocol to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.
10. We urge Member States to respect the Olympic Truce, individually and collectively, now and in the future, and to support the International olympic committee in his efforts to promote peace and understanding among people through sport and the embodiment of the Olympic ideals.

III. Development and poverty eradication

11. We will spare no effort to free our fellow men, women and children from the degrading, extreme poverty in which more than a billion of them are currently forced to live. We are committed to making the right to development a reality for all and freeing the entire human race from want.
12. In this regard, we are committed to creating, both nationally and globally, an environment conducive to development and poverty eradication.
13. Success in achieving these goals depends, inter alia, on ensuring good governance in each country. It also depends on ensuring good governance at the international level and transparency in the financial, monetary and trading systems. We are committed to an open, fair, rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory multilateral trading and financial system.
14. We are concerned about the obstacles that developing countries face in mobilizing the resources needed to finance their sustainable development. We will therefore make every effort to ensure the success of the High-Level International and Intergovernmental Event on Financing for Development to be held in 2001.
15. We are also committed to helping meet the special needs of the least developed countries. In this regard, we welcome the convening of the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries in May 2001 and will strive to ensure its success. We call on industrialized countries to:
adopt, preferably before the start of this Conference, a set of measures to ensure duty-free and quota-free access to their markets for virtually all exports of least developed countries;
initiate, without further delay, an expanded program of debt relief for highly indebted poor countries and agree to cancel all official bilateral debt of these countries in exchange for their strong commitments to combat poverty;
and provide more generous development assistance, especially to those countries that are truly trying to use their resources to reduce poverty.
16. We are also committed to comprehensively and effectively addressing the debt problems of low- and middle-income developing countries through various national and international measures aimed at making their debt sustainable over the long term.
17. We are also committed to addressing the special needs of small island developing States by implementing the Barbados Program of Action and the decisions of the twenty-second special session of the General Assembly expeditiously and fully. We urge international community Ensure that the development of the vulnerability indicator takes into account the special needs of small island developing States.
18. We recognize the special needs and challenges of landlocked developing countries and urge both bilateral and multilateral donors to increase financial and technical assistance to this group of countries to meet their special development needs and help them overcome difficulties caused by their geographical location by improving their transit transport systems.
19. We are also determined:
halve the share of the population by 2015 globe with an income of less than one dollar a day and the proportion of the world's population suffering from hunger, and to halve by the same period the proportion of the world's population without access to safe drinking water, including due to lack of funds;
ensure that, by the same date, children around the world, both boys and girls, have the opportunity to complete a full primary school education and that girls and boys have equal access to all levels of education;
by the same date, achieve a reduction in maternal mortality by three-quarters and mortality among children under 5 years of age by two-thirds compared with their current levels;
by the specified date, stop the spread of HIV/AIDS, malaria and other major diseases that affect humanity, and begin a trend towards reducing their incidence;
provide special assistance to children who have lost their parents due to HIV/AIDS;
by 2020, achieve significant improvements in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, as envisaged by the Slum-Free Cities initiative.
20. We are also determined:
promote gender equality and women's empowerment as effective means combating poverty, hunger and disease and promoting development that is truly sustainable;
develop and implement policies that give young people around the world a real chance of finding decent and productive work;
encourage the pharmaceutical industry to ensure wider distribution of essential medicines and their greater accessibility to all who need them developing countries;
build strong partnerships with the private sector and civil society organizations for development and poverty eradication;
Take measures to ensure that everyone can benefit from new technologies, especially information and communications technologies, in accordance with the recommendations contained in the 2000 ECOSOC Ministerial Declaration.

IV. Protecting our shared environment

21. We must spare no effort in ridding all humanity, and above all our children and grandchildren, from the threat of living on a planet that will be hopelessly damaged by human activity and whose resources will no longer be sufficient to meet their needs.
22. We reaffirm our support for the principles of sustainable development, including those set out in Agenda 21 agreed at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development.
23. In this regard, we are determined to adhere to the new ethic of caring and responsible attitude towards nature in all our environmental activities and, to begin with, declare our determination:
make every effort to ensure the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol, preferably by the tenth anniversary of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 2002, and to begin the greenhouse gas emissions reductions it envisages;
intensify our collective efforts for forest management, conservation of all types of forests and sustainable development forestry;
strive for full implementation of the Convention on biological diversity and the Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa;
stop unsustainable exploitation water resources, developing water management strategies at the regional, national and local levels that promote equitable access to water and its sufficient supply;
intensify cooperation to reduce the number and consequences of natural disasters and man-made disasters;
provide free access to information about the human genome.

V. Human rights, democracy and good governance

24. We will spare no effort to promote democracy and strengthen the rule of law, and to ensure respect for all internationally recognized human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the right to development.
25. We are therefore determined:
fully respect and support the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
to seek the full protection and promotion in all our countries of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights for all;
strengthen the capacity of all our countries to implement the principles and practices of democracy and respect for human rights, including the rights of minorities;
combat all forms of violence against women and implement the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women;
take measures to respect and protect the human rights of migrants, migrant workers and members of their families, stop the increasing manifestations of racism and xenophobia in many societies and promote greater harmony and tolerance in all societies;
collectively push for greater openness political processes by creating conditions for genuine participation by all citizens in all our countries;
provide funds mass media freedom to perform their essential function; and the public's right of access to information.

VI. Protecting the Vulnerable

26. We will make every effort to ensure that children, as well as all civilian populations who suffer the most as a result of natural disasters, genocide, armed conflict and other humanitarian emergencies, are provided with every assistance and protection with a view to their speedy return to normal life.
Therefore, we are determined:
expand and strengthen efforts to protect civilians in complex emergencies in accordance with international humanitarian law;
strengthen international cooperation, including burden-sharing humanitarian aid countries hosting refugees and its coordination; and assist all refugees and displaced persons to voluntarily return to their homes in safety and dignity and to reintegrate smoothly into their societies;
Encourage the ratification and full implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its optional protocols on the involvement of children in armed conflict and the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.

VII. Meeting Africa's Special Needs

27. We will support the strengthening of democracy in Africa and assist Africans in their struggle for lasting peace, poverty eradication and sustainable development, thereby bringing Africa into the mainstream of global economic development.
28. We are therefore determined:
fully support the political and institutional structures of emerging democracies in Africa;
stimulate and support regional and subregional mechanisms for conflict prevention and promotion political stability and ensure a reliable flow of resources for peacekeeping operations on the continent;
take special measures to address poverty eradication and sustainable development in Africa, including debt relief, improved market access, increased official development assistance (ODA) and increased direct flows foreign investment(FDI) as well as technology transfer;
help Africa build its capacity to curb the HIV/AIDS pandemic and other infectious diseases.

VIII. Strengthening the United Nations

29. We will make every effort to make the United Nations a more effective tool to solve all these priority tasks: the fight for development for all peoples of the world, the fight against poverty, ignorance and disease; fighting injustice; combating violence, terrorism and crime; fight against the degradation and destruction of our common house.
30. We are therefore determined:
reaffirm the centrality of the General Assembly as the main deliberative, decision-making and representative organ of the United Nations and enable it to play this role effectively;
to intensify our efforts to carry out comprehensive reform of the Security Council in all its aspects;
continue to strengthen the Economic and Social Council, building on its recent achievements, to help it fulfill the role assigned to it in the Charter;
strengthen International Court of Justice in order to ensure justice and the rule of law in international affairs;
encourage regular consultation and coordination among the principal organs of the United Nations in the performance of their functions;
ensure that the Organization is provided, on a timely and predictable basis, with the resources it needs to fulfill its mandates;
urge the Secretariat to make the best use of these resources, in accordance with the clear rules and procedures agreed by the General Assembly, for the benefit of all Member States, through the use of the most effective methods management and advanced technologies and by focusing efforts on those tasks that are consistent with the agreed priorities of Member States;
promote compliance with the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel;
ensure greater policy coherence and further improve interaction between the United Nations, its agencies, the Bretton Woods institutions and the World Trade Organization, as well as other multilateral bodies, in order to ensure a fully coordinated approach to peace and development issues;
continue to strengthen cooperation between the United Nations and national parliaments through their world organization- Interparliamentary Union - in various areas, including peace and security, economic and social development, international law and human rights, democracy and gender issues;
provide to the private sector, non-governmental organizations and civil society and generally greater opportunities to contribute to the Organization's goals and programs.
31. We request the General Assembly to regularly review progress in the implementation of the provisions of this Declaration and request the Secretary-General to publish periodic reports for the consideration of the General Assembly and as a basis for further action.
32. We take this historic opportunity to reaffirm that the United Nations is the indispensable common home of all humanity and that through it we will strive to realize our common desire for peace, cooperation and development. We therefore solemnly pledge our full support for these common goals and declare our determination to ensure their achievement.
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It has been proven that living in modern world and to be free from it is not only ineffective, but also impossible. This determines our active participation in international life. Today we will talk about a serious forum held in the USA. On...

It has been proven that living in the modern world and being free from it is not only ineffective, but also impossible. This determines our active participation in international life. Today we will talk about a serious forum held in the USA. There were envoys from Moldova, including an NM columnist.

Declaration

The world community has been living in the third millennium for five years now. Serious changes have occurred both in the socio-political structure of the planet and in the development doctrines of states on all continents. Cooperation in various areas is constantly expanding. This requires not only a quantitative expansion of interaction parameters, but also the formation of a fundamentally new nature of relations. They must take into account the diversity of economic, socio-political, cultural, spiritual and many other factors.

On September 8, 2000, the General Assembly adopted the “United Nations Millennium Declaration”, according to which the UN members, including the Republic of Moldova, declared the fundamental values ​​of development in the 21st century: freedom, equality, solidarity, tolerance, respect for nature, common responsibilities.

According to the UN, achieving these goals is possible only through the comprehensive democratization of resolution mechanisms. global problems. Involvement in resolving these issues is possible more countries, public organizations and institutions, individual citizens.

Unfortunately, the current socio-economic situation in the world community has come into conflict with these great principles. Euphoria from economic success in developed countries market economy, with a population of about one billion people (the “golden billion”) obscures from most people the manifestation of signs of decay and degradation in the most various fields activities in all states, from economics to morality.

International Union economists, committed to high democratic principles, strives to contribute to the socio-economic progress of our planet. At its next meeting (the fifteenth since its founding), as always, the most pressing issues were discussed.

Our information:

The International Union of Economists (ITU) was founded in 1991 as a public non-governmental association. The main goals of ITU are declared to be: promoting economic and social progress world community; development of integration processes in various regions of the world economic space; ensuring wide international exchange of information in the field of economics, science and technology; search and implementation of new forms of international cooperation. ITU members are national and regional unions and associations, large and medium-sized corporations, banks, financial companies, economists - scientists and practitioners, public figures.

ITU unites organizations from 43 countries, has its official representative offices and offices in 21 countries and 2 main headquarters - in Moscow and New York. ITU is a member of UNESCO and the UN Department of Public Information, General Consultant of the UN Economic and Social Council.

The current action took place in New York. The UN conference hall E1 hospitably received 116 participants. The topic specified the above-mentioned problem and sounded like this: “Strategy for the socio-economic development of countries with economies in transition in accordance with the goals of the Millennium Declaration.” For Moldova, this is very topical. The meeting was more than impressive: 44 academicians and corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences and industry specialized academies. In particular, Aka

Committed to achieving the Millennium Development Goals in the area of ​​peace and security; development; environmental protection; human rights, democracy and governance; protecting the vulnerable; meet Africa's needs; strengthening the UN.

Some goals, especially in the field of development, are formulated specifically, indicating numbers and deadlines (mainly 2015 and 2020).

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The United Nations Millennium Development Goals are eight goals that all 191 UN member states agreed to achieve in 2015. The United Nations Millennium Declaration, signed in September 2000, commits world leaders to combating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women. All MDGs derived from this Declaration have specific targets and indicators.

The eight Millennium Development Goals:

  • eliminate extreme poverty and hunger;
  • provide universal primary education;
  • promote gender equality and empower women;
  • reduce child mortality;
  • improve maternal health;
  • fight HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases;
  • ensure environmental sustainability; And
  • build a global partnership for development.

All MDGs are interdependent, all MDGs affect health, and health affects all MDGs. For example, better health makes children able to learn and adults able to earn a living. To achieve better health gender equality is necessary. Tackling poverty, hunger and environmental degradation has a positive impact on achieving the MDGs, but results in these areas also depend on gains in health.