澳大利亚声明联合国千年发展目标高级别会议纽约2010年9月22日.doc

澳大利亚声明 联合国千年发展目标高级别会议 纽约 2010年9月22日 CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY 以实际演讲内容为准 As nations we have a responsibility to do that which we say we will do. 作为国家我们都有责任做到言行一致。 A responsibility to keep our promises to fellow Member States. 有责任对其他成员国信守诺言。 ? A responsibility to turn the commitments solemnly given in this great chamber into concrete actions that change the lives of the poorest of the poor across the world. 有责任将在这个伟大的会议厅内所做的庄严承诺转化为具体行动，改善全世界最贫困人口的生活。 ? A decade ago, we, the nations of the world, assembled here to offer the world’s poor a fairer share in the world’s future. 十年前，世界各国在此集会提出给全世界的贫困人口奉献一个更加公平的未来。 ? A decade later we gather once again to take stock. 十年之后我们再次聚首来检视和评估我们的进展。 ? To celebrate what has been done. 来庆祝已经取得的成绩。 ? But also honestly to admit where we have failed. 但也要如实地承认我们没有做到的地方。 ? I want to begin with a story of two children. 我要以两个孩子的故事来开始我的发言。 ? The first is a young girl I met on Monday, here in New York. 第一个是我星期一在纽约遇见的一个小女孩。 ? Her name is Nthabiseng. 她的名字叫娜碧珊。 ? She was born in Soweto. 她出生在南非的索韦托。 ? Nthabiseng is a beautiful little girl with the brightest of smiles. She is 12 years old. But when she was seven, her mother died. 娜碧珊是个漂亮的小女孩，有着最灿烂的笑容。他今年12岁。然而她的母亲在她七岁时离开了人世。 ? Normally, this would have consigned her to a life in poverty. 一般来说这样的遭遇往往会使她陷入难以摆脱的贫穷生活。 ? But Nthabiseng was determined to get an education. 但是娜碧珊下定决心要上学。 ? She said, “when children are stopped from going to school, they are losing their future and their tomorrow.” Now she is doing well in school and has a very bright future. 她说：“小孩子无法上学将失去他们的未来和明天”。现在她书念的很好，前途一片光明。 ? Children like Nthabiseng will benefit from the UN’s One Goal program that seeks to make education a reality for all the children in the world, not just some. 跟娜碧珊境况类似的孩子们将会从联合国的有关项目中受益，该项目寻求实现全世界的孩子都能接受教育，而不仅仅是一部分孩子上得起学。 ? The second story is of a young boy who has never been to New York. 第二个故事是关于一个从未来过纽约的男孩。 He too lost his mother –?she died giving birth to him. 他也失去了母亲 – 在他出生时母亲于分娩中不幸身亡。 ? His family eke