The leaders appreciate the efforts of the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development in promoting sustainable agricultural development in Arab States.

The leaders appreciate the efforts of the Arab Industrial Development and Mining Organization in preparing an Arab industrial development strategy.

Through NEPAD, African leaders have created a comprehensive and holistic approach to development.

World leaders acknowledged that principle of national responsibility at the 2002 Monterrey Conference on Financing for Development.

The Group has held a series of meetings with Haitian leaders and key international development partners of the country.

Mr. Rahman (Bangladesh) Five years ago, world leaders made the unprecedented promise of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Support for 84 indigenous women leaders to increase their leadership skills, confidence and level of involvement in community development

At the September summit, our leaders recognized the linkages among development, peace and security and human rights.

The leading actions on financing for development which heads of State and leaders of Government agreed upon have not been fully implemented.

Nigeria notes the deliberations and decisions taken by our leaders very recently on the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

The world's leaders embraced good governance, domestic ownership of development strategies, trade and private investment as key elements of economic growth and prosperity.

Enlightened self interest should send business leaders to the development table, to be co architects of development strategies, to join in public private partnerships and, as appropriate, to engage in philanthropy.

Nor is the global financial crisis a justification for the world s leaders failing to keep their word. Nearly nine years ago, at the Millennium Development Summit in New York, the leaders of 180 countries, including all the major affluent nations, promised that by 2015 they would together achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

To promote women's participation in national development and in their own self fulfillment, the Guinean authorities and organizations of civil society regularly sponsor public seminars and workshops for women, men, young people, religious leaders, opinion leaders, traditional communicators, etc.

A new programme for senior women leaders and new organizational development tools that model effective managers and departments were introduced.

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There is no doubt that the achievement of comprehensive and sustainable development has been, and still is, the primary goal of all major meetings of world leaders.

Through such strategic linkups, youth leaders of participating youth organizations have the opportunity to share best practices in areas of youth sector development with their peers overseas.

The late President was one of the eminent world leaders who devote their lives to their people and to the achievement of the objectives of development and progress.

By displacing traditional centers of power, development can nurture collective resentment. Ethnic manipulation is a small step away, which many political leaders are disposed to take.

The September summit can be a success only if our leaders can agree on a concrete plan of specific actions to achieve those agreed development goals.

The declaration made on 23 August by the Government of Uganda, that six MRC leaders are personae non gratae on Ugandan territory, is an encouraging development.

Five years ago, our leaders promised the people of the United Nations that they would improve their quality of life through the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

That approach corresponds to the decisions made by our leaders at the 2000 Millennium Summit in setting out a series of time bound Millennium Development Goal targets.

Three years ago, at the International Conference on Financing for Development, many of you were among the world leaders who put their weight behind the Monterrey Consensus.

Mr. Yao Wenlong (China) said that development was a long standing goal, recently reaffirmed by national leaders in the 2005 World Summit Outcome.

In adopting the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), African leaders had recognized that Africans themselves had to play a substantive role in the development of their continent. However, the international community also had an important part to play in supporting the development process in Africa.

Also, the broad concept of social development affirmed by all world leaders in Copenhagen has gradually become less comprehensive and has even been severely weakened in global policymaking.

Mr. Choi Young jin (Republic of Korea) I am pleased to remind the Assembly that in September our leaders reaffirmed that good governance is essential for sustainable development.

Continued support is vital for efforts to empower women, and for promoting their role as peacemakers, peacebuilders, and leaders in the governance and future development of Sierra Leone.

Secondly, at the Summit, world leaders had reaffirmed their commitment to the global development partnership which had been agreed to in the Monterrey Consensus.

Brazil had the privilege of hosting the Latin American and Caribbean Youth Leadership Summit, organized by the United Nations Development Fund, which brought together young leaders from the region to discuss the Millennium Development Goals from a youth perspective.

Recognizing their role as leaders in adopting new technologies, young people acknowledge the beneficial impacts of information and communication technologies (ICT) on their lives and the development of their societies.

It took real commitment by the leaders and people of Bougainville to achieve peace and to choose the type of government that they believe will bring about development and prosperity.

This is a crucial moment that we are experiencing as leaders of our countries, sixty years after the creation of the United Nations and five after the Millennium Development Goals.

They were the leaders, and we are the leaders of our community and the hope of our future generations.

To be sure, the ESS s three basic tenets development assistance, soft power, and effective multilateralism remain important. But Europe s leaders must reconceive these concepts in light of today s challenges.

The scale of the challenges requires courageous thinking, bold initiatives, and ingenuity by national and regional political and development leaders. Otherwise, violence will engulf the region and far beyond.

A few weeks ago, the world's leaders gathered here to review progress towards the Millennium Development Goals and the reform process facing the United Nations.

The diplomatic envoys stationed in China from countries and organizations warmly congratulated the 69th anniversary of the founding of the People s Republic of China, conveyed the greetings of the leaders of their respective countries and institutions to the Chinese leaders and people, and said that China has made outstanding achievements in development and believed that further deepening reforms in the future and expanding opening up will bring more development opportunities for the world.

Public opinion disapproves of female leaders.

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The majority of the respondents were also convinced that male leaders are definitely preferable to female leaders because men as leaders are more rational, self confident and have more authority.

Youth represent not only future political leaders they are our immediate future and our hope for sustainable development and, of course, for the elimination of the poverty that afflicts many of our countries.

In that regard, we stress the importance of concluding the Doha development round by 2006, as called for in the Doha Declaration and Doha Plan of Action by the leaders of the South.