"The world has been experiencing the ravages of the worst natural disasters in recent memory," which have slowed progress towards the achievement of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Barbados said here on Tuesday.
"These phenomena have either slowed the progress of some member states in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the target date of 2015, or in other cases have undermined their capacity and capability to continue making the effort," Barbados' Foreign Minister Maxine Mcclean said here at the UN high-level meeting on MDGs, which entered its second day here Tuesday,
With just 5 years to go before the deadline for achieving the MDGs, nearly 140 world leaders will discuss how and where they can do more in the remaining period to defeat poverty, reduce hunger, stop environmental degradation, improve education, boost maternal and child health and reach the other remaining targets.
With Barbados being a small island developing state, Maxine Mcclean noted their "peculiarities and vulnerabilities" that goes along with it.
"We are exposed to natural disasters and the ravages of climate change," Maxine Mcclean said.
While Barbados made gains through launched initiatives and monitoring systems, such as a country assessment of living conditions, she said. "We’re painfully aware that all these gains can be derailed by a hurricane or an earthquake, as is the present case the collapse of financial markets."
"These phenomena have either slowed the progress of some member states in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the target date of 2015, or in other cases have undermined their capacity and capability to continue making the effort," Barbados' Foreign Minister Maxine Mcclean said here at the UN high-level meeting on MDGs, which entered its second day here Tuesday,
With just 5 years to go before the deadline for achieving the MDGs, nearly 140 world leaders will discuss how and where they can do more in the remaining period to defeat poverty, reduce hunger, stop environmental degradation, improve education, boost maternal and child health and reach the other remaining targets.
With Barbados being a small island developing state, Maxine Mcclean noted their "peculiarities and vulnerabilities" that goes along with it.
"We are exposed to natural disasters and the ravages of climate change," Maxine Mcclean said.
While Barbados made gains through launched initiatives and monitoring systems, such as a country assessment of living conditions, she said. "We’re painfully aware that all these gains can be derailed by a hurricane or an earthquake, as is the present case the collapse of financial markets."
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