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1- La Table Rgionale Africaine Du 26 Novembre 2005 Alger Portant Sur ReporT Algiers Round Table, Palais des Nations Millennium Development Goals 26 November 2005 Algiers E. N. A 1 His Excellency Abdelaziz BOUTEFLIKA President of the Algerian Democratic People's Republic Key passages from the message of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to the Algiers Round Table President Abdelaziz Bouteflika welcomes the joint initiative of ECOSOC and the International Association of Economic and Social Councils and Similar Institutions. He addresses the participants in the Round Table, emphasising that this meeting aims at bringing out the "causes" of the delay in the implementation of the principles and orientations of the Millennium Declaration and of the subsequent Development Goals issuing from it. The Algerian Head of State deplores the growing inequalities which plunge poor populations into an unacceptable poverty. He further stresses that "one fifth of the world's population benefits from 85% of the wealth of the planet". President Abdelaziz Bouteflika highlights certain elements which may be at the origin of these alarming results. In fact, the adoption of an approach based on mercantilism reveals "the incapacity of the international community to settle problems where the financial aspect is not the only one to be taken into account". The President notes that "Public aid to development is stagnating or diminishing". The Head of State likewise denounces the widespread dysfunction as well as the excessive bureaucracy which handicap the routing of aid packets and their distribution to their intended beneficiaries. As far as the African continent is concerned, the Algerian President proposes a large number of different paths to be followed in order to get out of this dead-end. On the one hand, he insists on the importance of the elaboration of analyses driven by new concepts more inspired "by a will of openness, of transparency and good governance". This is the impulsion breathed in by NEPAD and the African Peer Review Mechanism - APRM. On the other, the Head of State warmly recommends taking account of new forms of participation, encompassing the university sphere and the decision-makers of civil society for the purpose of reducing poverty and promoting human development. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika denounces the primacy of commercial law over all other norms and appeals for the introduction of a more human and fairer world order for the purpose of implementing a global and lasting process of reduction of poverty. The Algerian Head of State recalls that "the Millennium Goals constitute only a minimum of development to be achieved, destined to foster the setting in motion of a global and durable process of reduction of poverty". He insists on the crucial importance of investment in a knowledge of the mechanisms of social violence the repercussions of which endanger the political stability and economic viability of our societies. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika concludes by stating that the results of the Round Tables should take a concrete form and lead to a veritable partnership. 2 REPORT ON THE ALGIERS ROUND TABLE The Regional African Table of 26 November 2005 in Algiers, held in the framework of the Millennium Development Goals and on the topic of "the way of collective appropriation by means of know-how and knowledge", was organised jointly by the International Association of Economic and Social Councils and Similar Institutions (AICESIS), by the Union of the Economic and Social Councils of Africa (UESCA), by the National Economic and Social Council of Algeria (CNES), by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC), in partnership with the teaching establishments and those of civil society, and under the high patronage of H.E. Mr Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of the Democratic People's Republic of Algeria. This Round Table is the second of the three regional meetings planned by AICESIS and ECOSOC, the first of which was held on 24 October 2005 in Paris, while the third is scheduled to take place on 17-18 January in Brasilia. This Algiers Round Table takes its place in a particularly propitious context of national reconciliation in Algeria, through the implementation of an ambitious project of economic re-launching and social development of the country, with these vital initiatives taking their place in the spirit of and in close symbiosis with the commitments contained in the Millennium Declaration. This Round Table was marked by a partnership and an active participation of the government and of the public authorities (ESCs), the universities and the NGOs. The accent was placed on the need to create educational and didactic tools better suited for the training of future professionals working in civil society, with a view to arriving at the achievement of the MDGs within the time limits foreseen. This Round Table was also held in conjunction with the General Assembly of UESCA and was followed by a meeting in the framework of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), foreseen by NEPAD. The Round Table was opened by Mr Tayeb Belaïz, Minister of Justice, who brought a message from Mr Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of the Republic. Reminding participants that the MDGs constitute no more than a minimum of desirable development, destined to start off the global process of reduction of poverty, Mr Bouteflika quoted the results given in the course of the 60th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations in September 2005, that were "symptomatic of the incapacity of the international community to settle problems where the financial aspect is not the only one to be taken into account", and noting the "numerous cases of overlapping of power which prevent the fluidity of mechanisms for the routing of aid and the real taking in hand of the needs" of the communities suffering from various scourges. Remarking furthermore "the at times violent and always regrettable reactions" caused by the present uprisings in the world, and deploring that "the situation of the poor populations does not cease to grow worse, whereas one fifth of the world's population monopolises 85% of the world's riches", he appealed to these rich countries to "become aware of the human tragedy of the daily experiences of our peoples. The important participation in this Round Table of the Economic and Social Councils, institutions which have become," according to Mr Bouteflika, "powerfully symbolical of the new models of representation and governance, capable of articulating harmoniously the specific and given action of the public authorities and of organised civil society for a greater effectiveness in the elaboration and implementation of public policies", marked a new approach towards the achievement of the MDGs. 3 The President did not fail to stress that a framework of dialogue, such as NEPAD, which plans to reduce poverty, to promote human development, as well as durable development, likewise deserves to be supported. For the President of CNES, Mr Mohamed Seghir Babes, the Algiers Round Table takes its place in the quest for a vital minimum in the achievement of the MDGs. He is convinced that, despite the incidental difficulties, the African ESCs will be capable of taking up the challenges presented by the MDGs. In fact, cooperation between the public authorities, the ESCs, the universities and civil society is one of the necessary conditions for the implementation of appropriate methods for the achievement of the MDGs. In his opinion, the essential goal will have been to place side by side and ensure they work together these four "spaces", as he calls them, which could operate in a quite remarkable interactivity. Mr Babes sees the CNES as a vector by means of which lasting development will be able to progress, for "it is part of the vocation of CNES to approach this exercise in a general way as regards everything in the nature of economic and social development and, in a particular way, when it comes to the MDGs, since the latter appeal to spaces which are concerned with the most vulnerable fractions of the population". Mr van Ginkel, Rector of the United Nations University (UNU) and Under-Secretary General of UNO, underlined the importance of this procedure aimed at integrating the notion of the MDGs within teaching establishments and university courses. He mentioned the programmes that UNU has already set up and which meet the concerns of the MDGs. In his duties as rector, he encouraged bringing courses more in line with the practical and local needs and requirements of the MDGs, in addition to aiming at a global pedagogy, by the underlying means of the "training of trainers". In this sense, a partnership between science Pô, ENA Algiers and UNU could serve as a model for the final concrete implementation of new educational approaches. The Rector of UNU did not fail to underline the complementarity and the purpose of the eight ideals pursued by the MDGs, namely a lasting development for all, through education. He insisted on the role of teaching in the understanding of the MDGs, wondering whether the role of the teaching structures should be limited to making known to students the contents of the Millennium Declaration and of the MDGs, or else go further, teaching them how to arrive at translating them into facts. Mrs Savane, President of the Panel of Eminent Persons (APRM) , noted that the contribution required of 0.7% of the GNP of the developed countries remains far short of this goal. She proposed three ways of framing the priorities of action: a) lasting development, b) sectorial priorities, and c) partnership. She stressed that the priorities of NEPAD reflect the goals laid down in the MDGs and that there is a undoubted relationship of symbiosis between NEPAD and the MDGs. In her speech she associated with NEPAD the African Peer Review Mechanisms (APRM), insisting on the usefulness of this system of self-evaluation by Africans and for Africans.
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