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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8179

25 March 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) un/development
European Union is determined to go beyond Monterrey consensus

Brussels, 25/03/2002 (Agence Europe) - The "Monterrey consensus" which resulted from the UN conference on development financing will not allow the necessary thrust to be given to the global flow of public development aid so that poverty in the world may be reduced by half by the year 2015. To achieve this target set by the international community in September 2000 when it adopted the "millennium declaration", it would have been necessary for the rich countries to pledge to double the total...

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