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Article: UN: China on track to meet all MDGs
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- China Daily
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- August 30, 2005
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China is on track to meet almost all of the UN's Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs), said one top UN official yesterday in
Beijing, while urging for more focused efforts from other countries
as the world in general "is certainly not on track."
"In China, the results look quite good, but they are not so good
for other parts of the world," said UN Under-Secretary Ann M.
Veneman.
Veneman made the remarks as she and other top UN officials
appeared yesterday in a one-hour encounter to communicate with the
media, academics, civil societies and the government on UN reforms
and September's UN summit.
The discussion was part of the celebration of the 10th anniversary
of the Fourth World Conference ...