Examples of using Monterrey commitments in English and their translations into Arabic
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Of course, donors are not responsible for all aspects of the Monterrey commitments.
The existing tools for monitoring the Monterrey commitments must be strengthened and the Bretton Woods institutions, WTO and all other stakeholders must remain involved in the process.
Thus, the European Union is on the right path for fulfilling its Monterrey commitments.
Developing countries should strengthen efforts to fulfil their part of the Monterrey commitments by creating an enabling environment with good governance and through optimal domestic resource mobilization.
Given the considerable drop in ODA in 2006,he wondered what had become of the Monterrey commitments.
There were many calls for a more precise mechanism for monitoring,as we go forward, the Monterrey commitments and the targets embodied in Goal 8 of the Millennium Development Goals.
They called on the international community to fulfil its commitments in these areas, including the Monterrey commitments.
Developing countries were making significant efforts to deliver their Monterrey commitments and it was important to reinforce those efforts.
First, we intend to increase our official development assistance by 50 per cent over five years,to implement the Monterrey commitments.
Mr. Malanda(Congo) said that the international communitymust continue to seek further support for the Monterrey commitments in order to garner more resources for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
Once again there had been confirmation of the need to vigorously mobilize financialresources in order to ensure full and timely implementation of the Monterrey commitments.
Mr. Osman(Malaysia) said that the internationalcommunity needed to strengthen its efforts to fulfil the Monterrey commitments and mobilize financial resources for development, as called for in the 2005 World Summit Outcome.
African countries are experiencing weaker export revenues, lower investment and growth rates, and shrinking remittances and FDI flows,which constrain their capacity to meet the Monterrey commitments.
In this context, there were many calls for amore precise mechanism for monitoring implementation of the Monterrey commitments as we go forward, as well as for the targets embodied in goal 8 of the Millennium Development Goals.
While his delegation welcomed all those mechanisms for follow-up to the Monterrey Consensus, it felt that there was adiscernible absence of an intergovernmental body to pursue the Monterrey commitments at an expert level.
At its twelfth session, in 2004, a broad-based appeal wasmade for development partners to move towards meeting all the Monterrey commitments and to target an increased amount of funding specifically for investments in water, sanitation and human settlements.
African countries are experiencing weaker export revenues, decreased investment and growth rates and shrinking remittances and foreign direct investment(FDI) flows,which have constrained their capacity to meet the Monterrey commitments.
Any appraisal of what the international community has done to meet the Monterrey commitments would certainly be mixed.
The findings of the 2004 Global Monitoring Report, entitled" Policies and Actions for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals and Related Outcomes", provided a sobering assessment of progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals andmeeting the Monterrey commitments.
But we know from the reports that our progress towards the realization of the MDGs has been slow anduneven that the realization of the Monterrey commitments has been dismal particularly on the part of developed countries and the international financial and trade institutions, and that the Doha Development Round has collapsed.
Whereas substantial progress was recorded in the areas of international resources mobilization and debt relief, performance in domestic resource mobilization, foreign aid and international trade has been disappointing. The global financial and economic crisis threatens to reverse the progress that has been made hitherto as African countries are experiencing weaker export revenues, lower investment and growth rates, and shrinking remittances and foreign direct investment(FDI) flows,which constrain their capacity to meet the Monterrey commitments.
His delegation supported the idea of establishing aUnited Nations mechanism to monitor implementation of the Monterrey commitments, following jointly agreed procedures.
Mr. Leglise-Costa(France) said that the renewed political impetus gained by the Millennium Development Goals,the progress made towards implementing the Monterrey commitments on financing for development and the steps taken with regard to such specific goals as fighting AIDS and improving the situation in Africa were impressive results that in some areas almost surpassed expectations.
With time-bound targets agreed by some key donors,momentum would appear to be building to meet the Monterrey commitments on development assistance.
Let me conclude by stressing that the issues of aid, debt relief andmultilateral assistance cannot be framed solely around charity or the Monterrey commitments to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
Those, briefly, are areas that could strengthen the Monterrey commitment to a global partnership between the South and the North.
By 2006, we will fulfil the Monterrey commitment, and by 2008 our official development assistance will reach 0.5 per cent of our gross domestic product.
With regard to an increase in international financial and technical cooperation for development, it is clear that,given the current trend, the Monterrey commitment to double official development assistance is far from being reached.
Some speakers lamented the erosion of the financing for development commitments and called for continued work to strengthen the follow-up mechanism,in accordance with the Monterrey commitment to" staying engaged".
I therefore call upon the world ' s rich countries to redouble their efforts to bring official development assistance-- which dropped from 0.33 per cent of gross domestic product in 2005 to 0.28 per cent in 2007--closer to the Monterrey commitment of 0.7 per cent.