Sheikh Hasina misleads, as have Tony Blair, Vladimir Putin, Helen Clark and Thabo Mbeki who all personally agreed the Millennium Declaration:


""I am pleased to address the High Level Plenary on the Millennium Development Goals. I am particularly pleased, because I was one of the 189 Heads of States and Governments who adopted the Millennium Declaration and the MDGs during the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000. 

[!] 

Distinguished Co-Chairs, 
The Millennium Declaration is the Magna Carta for a poverty-free world, and I am glad to have been a part in its adoption.
The MDGs, which aims at facilitating development and eradicating poverty, was adopted [!] by an unprecedented consensus.

 [? – When, exactly?  And were the MDGs not "precedented" by the Millennium Declaration?] 


This consensus was reinforced [?] by world leaders at the 2005 Millennium Summit."

[In fact leaders in 2005 reinforced the more ambitious and wider pledges in actual UN resolutions, despite the odd language of the 2005 summit outcome document, which may have been due to the disagreements between the US and other countries on the fact that the MDGs had never been formally agreed.
Hasina goes on to talk about the easier targets which she did not agree in 2000:] 

"Our achievements on MDG-1 (poverty alleviation); MDG-2 (universal primary education);MDG-3 (gender equality and women empowerment); and MDG-4 (reduction of child mortality) are encouraging, and on track. Projections indicate our success to lift 12 million people out of poverty by 2015, thereby, reducing poverty by half by then, as targeted in MDG-1."

"The MDGs have given us a benchmark to measure performance of national governments, private sectors, civil body, development partners, the UN and other intergovernmental bodies. The benchmark also provides opportunity for assessing progress in achieving the internationally agreed development targets."
[! -  those are the formally agreed targets and pledges in the various agreements – not just the "MDGs".  Hasina misleads in giving the impression that the MDGs "provide an opportunity for assessing progress" on what governments have actually agreed, and have reaffirmed up to at least 2013.]

"Please check against delivery" 
High Level Plenary Meeting-Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 
Statement by Her Excellency Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister 
Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh 
UN HQ, New York, 20-22 September 2010
http://pmo.portal.gov.bd/sites/default/files/files/pmo.portal.gov.bd/pm_speech/37621cb8_5c27_4133_9014_78fe61c8f25e/High%20Level%20Plenary%20Meeting_MDGs_20_220910.docx