Despite this, without additional efforts, these countries will not be able to fulfill their commitments by 2015. This is stated in the report of the United Nations "Millennium Development Goals", introduced by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the headquarters of the organization.
The report states that the countries of the region, including Azerbaijan, will face severe water shortage. In particular, renewable sources of drinking water experience decline in the Caucasus and Central Asia, which threatens the countries in the region.
The document notes the many positive achievements made by Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. These countries managed to halve the number of hungry and malnourished people. If in 1990 the number of such people was 14 percent, today there are about 7 per cent, the number of poor and extremely poor people fell from 10 percent to 4.
Nine out of ten children enrolled in the first class finish school, and the mortality rate among children under 5 years is halved.
UN experts say that the use of water in the region has reached 50 percent of total reserves, indicating the critical state of affairs.
The United Nations “Millennium Development Goals” program includes eight international development goals that 193 UN member-states and at least 23 international organizations have agreed to achieve by 2015. The goals include reducing extreme poverty, reducing child mortality, combating epidemics such as AIDS, as well as expansion of global cooperation for development.
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