“The Index shows in clear, cold numbers that many countries are not only failing to progress, but are actually slipping backward, and they will continue on that downhill path unless the international community steps in to help with more resources and new policies.”
“The Millennium Declaration was a solemn pledge to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty.”
“This report is sending a very clear signal that most of the Millennium Development Goals will be missed in most countries if we continue on the current trend.”
“If this summit doesn't produce a strong commitment to strengthen cooperation around the Millennium Development Goals...then we may as well forget the project.”
“We want a comprehensive package that covers export subsidies, tariffs and overall levels of support. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is making central to his summit speech that he wants to abolish all export subsidies. It is up to him to push the European Union in that direction, and the U.S. needs to reciprocate.”
“We have seen four years of wrangling without anything happening. They are stuck in quicksand, and if they don't get out by December the round will collapse.”
“[The goals] are a promissory note, written by 189 governments to the world's poor people, ... That note falls due in less than 10 years time, and without the required investment and political will, it will come back stamped 'insufficient funds.'”
