Denmark
Statement by
H.E. Mrs. Ulla TOrnaes
Minister for Development Cooperation
Denmark
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman
- also for your leadership in guiding us through this important discussion.
Further to the statement made by Luxembourg on behalf of the European Union, I would like
to make a few additional points.
The international environment related targets must be recognised as playing an instrumental
role in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Environmental sustainability is
closely linked with the development process. If environmental degradation and natural resource
depletion continue unabated, our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development
will be in vain.
Worded in various ways, these same messages have been sent to us by all the reports prepared
for the Millennium Review Summit.
CSD 13 must send a strong message on water, sanitation and human settlement. But it should
also send a strong message to the Millennium Review Summit highlighting the need for
integrating fully the concept of sustainable development into the review of the Millennium
Development Goals.
Mr. Chairman,
It is crucial that we succeed in turning our political commitments into action. You also
underlined that yourself a number of times in your interventions. The decisions made at CSD
13 must focus on a few key policy recommendations based on the key constraints identified
under CSD 12 to the implementation of the targets on water, sanitation and human settlement.
Insufficient national ownership of the goals and targets was identified as a crucial constraint. A
key policy recommendation from CSD 13 should therefore be that countries integrate the
international goals on water, sanitation and human settlement in Poverty Reduction Strategies
and national development plans. The implementation of such strategies and plans should be
made a top priority at the country level with full commitment from the government as well as
the donor community.
We need particularly to underline the importance of implementing the 2005 target on
Integrated Water Resource Management. Implementation of this target is crucial to reach the
targets on water and sanitation as well as other MDG's and commitments from the
Johannesburg Summit.
Finally, Mr. Chairman, monitoring and follow-up is necessary to ensure implementation.
Another important outcome of CSD 13 is to agree on a concrete, ambitious and forwardlooking
mechanism for monitoring and follow-up. If we could also agree to link this
mechanism to the one used for data collection and reporting on the MDG process, we have
laid a good foundation for our future work.
Thank you.
H.E. Mrs. Ulla TOrnaes
Minister for Development Cooperation
Denmark
13OTNH SSEUSSSTIAOINNA OBFL ET HDEE VCEOLMOMPMISESNIOTN
20N EAWpr Yil O2R00K5
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E-mail: nycmis@um.dk
http://www.missionfnnewyork.um.dk/en
Thank you, Mr. Chairman
- also for your leadership in guiding us through this important discussion.
Further to the statement made by Luxembourg on behalf of the European Union, I would like
to make a few additional points.
The international environment related targets must be recognised as playing an instrumental
role in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Environmental sustainability is
closely linked with the development process. If environmental degradation and natural resource
depletion continue unabated, our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development
will be in vain.
Worded in various ways, these same messages have been sent to us by all the reports prepared
for the Millennium Review Summit.
CSD 13 must send a strong message on water, sanitation and human settlement. But it should
also send a strong message to the Millennium Review Summit highlighting the need for
integrating fully the concept of sustainable development into the review of the Millennium
Development Goals.
Mr. Chairman,
It is crucial that we succeed in turning our political commitments into action. You also
underlined that yourself a number of times in your interventions. The decisions made at CSD
13 must focus on a few key policy recommendations based on the key constraints identified
under CSD 12 to the implementation of the targets on water, sanitation and human settlement.
Insufficient national ownership of the goals and targets was identified as a crucial constraint. A
key policy recommendation from CSD 13 should therefore be that countries integrate the
international goals on water, sanitation and human settlement in Poverty Reduction Strategies
and national development plans. The implementation of such strategies and plans should be
made a top priority at the country level with full commitment from the government as well as
the donor community.
We need particularly to underline the importance of implementing the 2005 target on
Integrated Water Resource Management. Implementation of this target is crucial to reach the
targets on water and sanitation as well as other MDG's and commitments from the
Johannesburg Summit.
Finally, Mr. Chairman, monitoring and follow-up is necessary to ensure implementation.
Another important outcome of CSD 13 is to agree on a concrete, ambitious and forwardlooking
mechanism for monitoring and follow-up. If we could also agree to link this
mechanism to the one used for data collection and reporting on the MDG process, we have
laid a good foundation for our future work.
Thank you.
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