Participants agreed on a draft which prioritised poverty reduction, compulsory primary education, improvement of gender equality, and enhancing the status of women, and mapped out remedies for these problems.

Vietnam has completed about two-thirds of a 10-year socio-economic development strategy (2000-2010) and two 5-year plans (2001-2005 and 2006-2010).

The United Nations will organise a summit this year to review the 10-year implementation of Millennium Goals and call for the ratification of international commitments on environment and climate change.