S. 1315 - Introduced by Senator Lugar (R-IN)

 

S.1315 Senate Resolution to require a report on the progress toward the Millennium Development Goals

 

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And found that this resolution had been introduced text of measure as introduced: CR S7431-7433

 

I clicked on that and was reading the text.  Down at the bottom Richard Lugar starts:

 

 By Mr. LUGAR:

   S. 1315. A bill to require a report on progress toward the Millennium Development Goals, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

   Mr. LUGAR. Mr. President, I rise today to introduce a bill that calls on the administration to assess the progress of poverty reduction efforts around the world since September 2000, when the Millennium Declaration was unanimously adopted by more than 180 nations, including the United States. Each of these nations signed an agreement to work toward defined objectives, called the Millennium Development Goals, which include the commitments to: build a global partnership for

[ Between these words is the following link to the Federal Register. 

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getpage.cgi?dbname=2005_record&page=S7431&position=all          (tinyurl provided in case the long one breaks. 

 http://tinyurl.com/9vh3x

 

development; eradicate extreme poverty by halving the number of people living on less than one dollar a day and the number who suffer hunger; achieve universal primary education for boys and girls alike; reduce by two-thirds the under-5 child mortality rate; halt and reverse the spread of AIDS, malaria and other major disease; promote gender equality, reduce maternal mortality by two-thirds; and ensure environmental sustainability.

   This bill also highlights the important research and recommendations of the Report of the Commission for Africa that was commissioned by Prime Minister Tony Blair in preparation for the July 2005 G8 Summit in Scotland. The report, entitled ``Our Common Interest,'' is an excellent study of past development efforts and current opportunities to respond to the challenges of extreme poverty in Africa.

   Three important international forums will occur this year that will help define the world's response to extreme poverty; the group of Eight highly industrialized countries will meet in July at Gleneagles, Scotland and will address the challenges and opportunities of the African continent; The United Nations Summit to review progress on the Millennium Development Goals will occur in September. It will provide an opportunity to measure global coherence and commitment to specific objectives in eradicating extreme poverty by 2015; and the The Sixth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization will meet in Hong Kong in December. Progress toward a genuinely equitable trade round in Hong Kong could provide a significant boost to global international development.

   This bill asks that the Secretary of State produce a report on the commitments made by the United States and the international community to achieve the Millennium

   Development Goals, including the decisions made in regard to these goals in the three upcoming summits. It asks that the report assess the prospects of achieving these goals by 2015 and to review policies that maintain continued United States leadership in reducing poverty worldwide. The report would be due 60 days after the completion of the WTO summit December 13-18, 2005.

   The purpose of this report is to encourage a discussion of the goals themselves and the practical challenges with which each of these goals must contend. This discussion should take place within and among donor and developing governments, on a continuing basis. The upcoming summits are an important opportunity to continue that discussion as well as to make concrete efforts, and if necessary adjustments, to achieving such goals.