An etxract. >Saturday, September 09, 2000, updated at 12:04(GMT+8) > > >U.N. Millennium Summit Adopts Declaration > >The three-day U.N. Millennium Summit concluded on Friday evening at the U.N. >headquarters in New York with the adoption of "United Nations Millennium >Declaration." > >In the nine-page declaration, the world leaders reaffirmed their commitment to >the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, which have >proved timeless and universal. > >The world leaders pledged to establish a just and lasting peace all over the >world in accordance with the objectives and principles of the charter, and >reaffirmed to support all efforts to uphold the sovereign equality of all >states, respect for their territorial integrity and political independence, >and resolution of disputes by peaceful means in conformity with the principles >of justice and international law. > >They also reaffirmed to support the right of self-determination of peoples >which remain under colonial domination and foreign occupation, >non-interference in the internal affairs of states, respect for human rights >and fundamental freedom, respect for the equal right of all without >distinction to race, sex, language or religion. > >The world leaders believed that the central challenge facing the international >community is to ensure that globalization becomes a positive force for all the >world peoples, and recognized that only through broad and sustained efforts to >create a shared future, based upon the common humanity in all its diversity, >can globalization be made fully inclusive and equitable. > >They are determined to create an environment at the national and global levels >alike which is conducive to development and to the elimination of poverty. > >The leaders voiced their support for the consolidation of democracy in Africa >and promised to assist Africans in their struggle for lasting peace, poverty >eradication and sustainable development, thereby bringing Africa into the >mainstream of the world economy, > >On strengthening the United Nations, the world leaders said they would spare >no efforts to make the United Nations a more effective instrument for pursuing >all of these priorities: the fight for development for all the peoples of the >world; the fight against poverty, ignorance and disease; the fight against >injustice; the fight against violence, terror and crime; and the fight against >the degradation and destruction of the environment. > >The three-day U.N. Millennium Summit concluded on Friday evening at the U.N. >headquarters in New York with the adoption of "United Nations Millennium >Declaration." > > > >UN Millennium Summits > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >- > >Copyright by People's Daily Online, all rights reserved _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
