Not much progress has been made on the negotiations on the major issues of interest and concern for Africa.

(They) are more concerned about protecting their interests and dominant position in global trade than placing the needs and interests of the developing world at the heart of negotiations.

Without those days they can't progress forward into the next grade, so that's a concern of a lot of families too. That their child's education is going to progress at the same pace that it's supposed to.

The communiqué reflects our particular concern about the negative impact that excessive increases in short-term interest rates in the major industrialized countries on growth prospects and the cost of credit for developing countries. We are also concerned about the potential dangers of too much volatility among the major currencies and financial asset markets.

My interest and my concern is not so much to ... commemorate what happened 50 years ago but to look at where we are now. We have to realize racism is not going to go away by itself.

its concern was based on the fact that such disputes continued to retard development and progress, resulting in increased poverty among the people.