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external financial resources and facilitating approval of such programmes by the
multilateral financial institutions;
(b) To support the African commitment to ensure that by 2015 all children
have access to complete, free and compulsory primary education of good quality, as
well as to basic health care;
(c) To support the building of an international infrastructure consortium
involving the African Union, the World Bank and the African Development Bank,
with the New Partnership for Africa’s Development as the main framework, to
facilitate public and private infrastructure investment in Africa;
(d) To promote a comprehensive and durable solution to the external debt
problems of African countries, including through the cancellation of 100 per cent of
multilateral debt consistent with the recent Group of Eight proposal for the heavily
indebted poor countries, and, on a case-by-case basis, where appropriate, significant
debt relief, including, inter alia, cancellation or restructuring for heavily indebted
African countries not part of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative that
have unsustainable debt burdens;
(e) To make efforts to fully integrate African countries in the international
trading system, including through targeted trade capacity-building programmes;
(f) To support the efforts of commodity-dependent African countries to
restructure, diversify and strengthen the competitiveness of their commodity sectors
and decide to work towards market-based arrangements with the participation of the
private sector for commodity price-risk management;
(g) To supplement the efforts of African countries, individually and
collectively, to increase agricultural productivity, in a sustainable way, as set out in
the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme of the New
Partnership for Africa’s Development as part of an African “Green Revolution”;
(h) To encourage and support the initiatives of the African Union and
subregional organizations to prevent, mediate and resolve conflicts with the
assistance of the United Nations, and in this regard welcomes the proposals from the
Group of Eight countries to provide support for African peacekeeping;
(i) To provide, with the aim of an AIDS-, malaria- and tuberculosis-free
generation in Africa, assistance for prevention and care and to come as close as
possible to achieving the goal of universal access by 2010 to HIV/AIDS treatment
in African countries, to encourage pharmaceutical companies to make drugs,
including antiretroviral drugs, affordable and accessible in Africa and to ensure
increased bilateral and multilateral assistance, where possible on a grant basis, to
combat malaria, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases in Africa through the
strengthening of health systems.
III. Peace and collective security
69. We recognize that we are facing a whole range of threats that require our
urgent, collective and more determined response.
70. We also recognize that, in accordance with the Charter, addressing such threats
requires cooperation among all the principal organs of the United Nations within
their respective mandates.
71. We acknowledge that we are living in an interdependent and global world and
that many of today’s threats recognize no national boundaries, are interlinked and
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