The «Millennium Declaration» establishes a new global alliance

The I United Nations Millennium Summit, which brought together 189 Heads of State and Government, was held in 2000 in Nueva York. This Summit was a historic opportunity to review the role of the United Nations and to analyse the great challenges of the new century. The 189 Heads of State and Government who attended signed the «Millennium Declaration» which proclaimed that only by working together in a sustained effort and respecting diversity would it be possible to achieve a fairer, more equitable and prosperous world in which peace could be achieved. Governments recognised their collective responsibility for ensuring that dignity, equality and equity reached all human beings and, more particularly, all the children in the world. Developing countries were to strengthen good governance, fight against corruption, promote growth and increase to a maximum the availability of internal resources to fund national development strategies. Likewise, developed countries had to support these efforts by increasing development aid and by cancelling debts. To make these commitments effective, a new world alliance was established, whose aims were to reduce extreme poverty and to establish a series of goals to be reached by the deadline of 2015, and which are known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDG).