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15. We pledge to enhance the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, accountability
and credibility of the United Nations system. This is our shared responsibility and
interest.
16. We therefore resolve to create a more peaceful, prosperous and democratic
world and to undertake concrete measures to continue finding ways to implement
the outcome of the Millennium Summit and the other major United Nations
conferences and summits so as to provide multilateral solutions to problems in the
four following areas:
• Development
• Peace and collective security
• Human rights and the rule of law
• Strengthening of the United Nations
II.
Development
17. We strongly reiterate our determination to ensure the timely and full
realization of the development goals and objectives agreed at the major United
Nations conferences and summits, including those agreed at the Millennium Summit
that are described as the Millennium Development Goals, which have helped to
galvanize efforts towards poverty eradication.
18. We emphasize the vital role played by the major United Nations conferences
and summits in the economic, social and related fields in shaping a broad
development vision and in identifying commonly agreed objectives, which have
contributed to improving human life in different parts of the world.
19. We reaffirm our commitment to eradicate poverty and promote sustained
economic growth, sustainable development and global prosperity for all. We are
encouraged by reductions in poverty in some countries in the recent past and are
determined to reinforce and extend this trend to benefit people worldwide. We
remain concerned, however, about the slow and uneven progress towards poverty
eradication and the realization of other development goals in some regions. We
commit ourselves to promoting the development of the productive sectors in
developing countries to enable them to participate more effectively in and benefit
from the process of globalization. We underline the need for urgent action on all
sides, including more ambitious national development strategies and efforts backed
by increased international support.
Global partnership for development
20. We reaffirm our commitment to the global partnership for development set out
in the Millennium Declaration,1 the Monterrey Consensus 2 and the Johannesburg
Plan of Implementation. 3
21. We further reaffirm our commitment to sound policies, good governance at all
levels and the rule of law, and to mobilize domestic resources, attract international
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Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development (Report of the
International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico, 18-22 March 2002 (United
Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex).
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Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Report of the World Summit
on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August-4 September 2002 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.03.II. A.1 and corrigendum), chap I, resolution 2, annex).
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