DHAKA: Foreign Minister Dr. Dipu Moni said the developed countries had miserably failed to provide 0.7% of their GNP as Official Development Assistance (ODA) to the developing countries.

Addressing the Special Ministerial Meeting for MDG`s Review in Asia and the Pacific Run Up to 2015 in Jakarta on Tuesday, she urged the developed countries to fulfill their commitment.

"As we pass two-third of the timeline for achieving the goals and look into the quantum of progress we have made in the last ten years, we cannot be as optimistic as we had been" she said calling for intensifying collective efforts to implement the MDGs by 2015 timeline.

Dr. Moni elaborated the progress Bangladesh had attained in the areas of hunger, net enrolment in primary education, gender parity, infant and child mortality, immunization coverage, supply of drinking water, and sanitation.

She said: ‘The government is working to provide employment to at least one member of each family. Ensuring food security for our people has been on our priority agenda. All these efforts are geared to making Bangladesh a middle-income country by 2021. We want to achieve what we call a ‘Digital Bangladesh’ by 2021’.

Terming Bangladesh as one of the worst victims of climate change, she called upon all nations to take immediate action on the basis of the Bali Action Plan, a message received here on Tuesday said.

BDST 1515 HRS, AUGUST 3, 2010