Irish Times: UN offers reminder to State on aid obligation
UN offers reminder to State on aid obligation
By DEAGLÁN de BRÉADÚN, Political Correspondent
IRELAND MUST not turn its back on the struggle to eradicate world poverty, a senior United Nations official said during a visit to Dublin yesterday.
Director of the UN Millennium Campaign to halve poverty levels by 2015, Salil Shetty praised Ireland’s role in providing development aid but expressed deep concern at recent cutbacks in the programme.
Source: Plan Ireland website
The Director of the United Nations Millennium Campaign, Salil Shetty, has called on the Irish government to honor its pledge to spend of 0.7% of national income on overseas development assistance.
He was referring to a pledge which was made at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000 by the then Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.
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