Well, the UN Millennium +5 Summit is udner way. And already, many countries have made committments that they may, or may not live up to.

One of the committments that I'm interestd in is the Australian committment to double aid funding by 2010. While it's a big step forward, it doesn't meet the 0.5% GNI target of 2010, nor is there any talk of meeting the 0.7% GNI target by 2015. It's a step forward in the right direction, but it is nowhere near enough.

Then again, many have thought that this summit will be a 'failure' as such, mainly because of many countries efforts to undermine the process. Hopefully at least somehting goodwill come out of the Summit, and that includes steps toward UN reform.

Well, in other news, I have finished exams, and have started getting results back. English wasn't so good (70%) but I was happy with my Modern History mark (82%). Also got Maths back, which was 83%, but I'm dropping that for Year 12.

The leaders of the world can know that many, many people are watching them throughout the UN World Summit. Let's hope they do something positive! :)

Besty