America supports the development goals of the Millennium Declaration, he insisted, but it does not support the Millennium Development Goals.

ECONOMIST: The UN's Millennium Development Goals

The Obama bill makes clear, in turn, that the latter are the objectives laid out by the United Nations General Assembly in its 2000 "Millennium Declaration" resolution.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Spreading the wealth

In its United Nations Millennium Declaration, adopted in 2000, the international community made commitments to reduce by half, between 2000 and 2015, the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water and to end the irrational use of water resources.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

In their declaration, prompted by the pope's pre-millennium call to local churches to ask for pardon for misdeeds committed during the course of the church's history, the French bishops seek to place the church's actions between 1940 and 1945 in a historical context.

ECONOMIST: France

The latest declaration comes amid a continuing effort by John Paul II to begin the millennium with prayers of contrition for wrongs committed by Roman Catholics throughout the ages.

CNN: Pope moves to heal ancient rift