Background: Millennium Summit

Annan, Kofi A., We the Peoples: 'The role of the United Nations in the 21st century', United Nations, New York, 2000.

This document was a prelude to the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000. In it, the Secretary-General deems six values to reflect the spirit of the United Nations Charter – freedom, equity and solidarity, tolerance, non-violence, respect for nature and shared responsibility – and presents them as underpinning the commitments (Millennium Development Declaration) that would emerge from the Summit. http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/Host.aspx?Content=/Products/SGReports.htm

United Nations, United Nations Millennium Declaration, General Assembly resolution A/RES/55/2, United Nations, New York, 8 September 2000.

This resolution, signed by 189 countries and adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, established the values and principles that anchor the eight Millennium Development Goals.
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The 2005 Secretary General’s Report “In Larger Freedom” calls for the development of MDG-based development strategies (paragraph 32)