The 55th Millennium Session of the UN General Assembly held in the UN headquarters in New York 6-8 June 2000, that brought together presidents and other high officials from 189 UN member countries, unanimously adopted the Millennium Declaration
These goals are: reducing and eradicating poverty, ensuring universal primary education, promoting gender equality, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, combating AIDS and other diseases, ensuring environmental stability, and developing a global partnership for development (aid, writing off debts).
For each of the said goals, at the UN global conferences, global summits, and meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, concrete objectives have been set that need to be achieved by 2015. Appropriate indicators have been chosen that will be used to monitor the progress in the realisation of these goals. This monitoring will take place on two levels – global and national.
The national report on the implementation of the said 8 millennium goals can be used for a comprehensive political planing and can held a country focus on its national development priorities. The report is intended for the public, civil society, politicians and decision-makers. This document should take into account the national development priorities, which means that it must reflect the specific situation in a country, and can also be based on the country’s existing documents.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in co-operation with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), is organising in Zagreb a series of round tables that will discuss the millennium goals in Croatia. The basis for the discussion between the representatives from the relevant ministries, state institutions, nongovernmental organisations, experts and representatives of the civil society is the draft of the Croatia’s Report on the Implementation of the Millennium Goals.
The round tables will be held in hotel Panorama in Zagreb, Trg sportova 9, from 27 May to 14 June 2004, from 9 am to 5 pm. The schedule is as follows:
27 May 2004
Gender equality
Co-ordinators: Office for Gender Equality and UNDP
2 June 2004
Ensuring universal primary education
Co-ordinators: Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, and the World Bank
7 June 2004
Combating AIDS and other diseases
Co-ordinators: Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, UNDP, UNICEF and World Health Organisation
8 June 2004
Ensuring environmental stability, global partnership
Co-ordinators: Ministry of Environmental Protection, Physical Planning and Construction, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and UNDP
9 June 2004
Reducing and eradicating poverty
Co-ordinators: Ministry of Economy, Labour and Entrepreneurship and UNDP
14 June 2004
Reducing child mortality, improving maternal health
Co-ordinators: Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, UNICEF and World Health Organisation
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