Busiest and hardest every year they say that.

6-12 months ago real doubt they coud gain any additional traction in
this current environment. Summit in that regard proved to be
encouraging. Awareness and political commitment, concrete action
plan; member states to make specific investment….139 heads of state
on a subject…2,000 journalists accredited to the mdg summit; eu one
bill to poorest, 3.5 for japan for education over five years.

Health front; global fund, replenishment. Major new increases france

Canada Norway japan. In advance of meeting next week.UK triple
financial commit on malaria on 500 millo pounds to 2014.
On track to end malaria deaths by 2015.

Major push two years ago on wmen and children’s health lagged
behind the others; not cherry pick, hardest …40 billioin concrete
commit: developing countries, corporate actors, non profits and
philanthropists;

Food security = new twist this fall, focus on nutrition. Real progress
identifying what can be done to make sure health and mdg gains are
not lost. US and Ireland, 1000 days, pregnancy on first two years of
life.

Climate change; meetings….espinoza mex minister of foreign affairs,

Copenhagen 16; 50 ministers attended , all key interests were
represented;

Balanced: cancun on different fronts in balanced way that moves

package forward, deforest, technology finance.

Casen peace and security agenda: 100 bilats and more; dip equivalent
of speed dating in which the encounters are too brief to lose one’s
virture. Issues: important was sudan mini summit, opportunity as
sudan goes thru most critical phases: poll conducted peacefully,
parties plan for results and plan for its consequences;

Darfur not neglect; Pakistan relevance, shortfall in dealing with face of

human crisis but address long term recovery and here from the gov
commit to good governance and rule of law; Somalia mini summit,
deteriorating security conditions, real humanitarian problems, piracy,
oporunity to focus on Somalia, the time is now and deal with
comprehensive range of issues; un upping its visibility, more staff in
mod, puntland and Somaliland; sec coun summit o n peacekeeping
and peacemaking, take stock on where we are;

Frien ds of Myanmar meeting, asean his concerns and myan fm views

of int community;

questions:

Haiti, will they keep the promises

formula,help fromoutside and engagement from inside on mdg?

action on inside and outside; development wont come from
disorganized inside....enables more...women and children's helath;
ripple effects of that failure....partnerships not traditional ones;
concrete committments, gates 1.5 billion; huge commit, johnson and
johnsona major major development, deworm; governments that have
populations,

margaret chan,a process she will lead; 10 meetings only on this

subject; momentum everyone likes to be part of a winning team;
make everyone invest more;

nigeria promise ...broader...

hasen: eritrea on somalia? sri lanka....1 out of 10 not in summary

iran not an overriding issue; fghanistan outcome of elections;
ncreasingly people asked what next
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eritrea... was inviteda nd then not invited, somalia requested;
important part to play; disarmament, lack of movement over last 13
years and determination to move it forward;

accountability, indevelopment far too long and too few results; macro
level outcome onaccountability; agreement framework,process and
lead on it;

ngos have people on the ground and includes all these actors; sernior
level to have credibi;ity...

mdgs very broad; organized around things that can be measures;

so much of coverage focussed on tv, handful of speeches which are

outliers, development hardest to cover; increasing sophisticated
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