Millennium Goals 'pushed back until next one'
                   
deadbrain.co.uk     May 13, 2008          

Initial targets too ambitious. ... The first UN report to be published in 2008 has revealed that the Millennium Goals are to be pushed back until the year 3000. Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, explained the decision: "It should hopefully give the... [read full story]                

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