HC Deb 15 May 2002 vol 385 c688W
14. Mr. Connarty

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what was agreed at the UN children's summit. [54751]

Clare Short

The UN General Assembly Special Session on Children agreed an outcomes document entitled "A World Fit for Children" which sets global priorities for tackling child poverty and promoting child rights and repeated the UN commitment to the millennium development goals. The document gives particular emphasis to health, education, child protection and HIV/AIDS. The Chancellor of the Exchequer attended the special session and urged world leaders to provide additional finance to tackle child poverty.

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