These millennium development goals reflect the international community's commitment to halving key indicators of world poverty by 2015. Earlier I congratulated the efforts of the joint UN/World Bank needs assessment mission. This mission very quickly and efficiently assessed the needs of Iraq to be $56 billion over the next few years. Equally rapidly, the international donor community came together and pledged $33 billion to meet some of these needs. Some $33 billion was pledged to a country which is sitting on top of the world's second largest oil reserves. This is also a country with a rich and deep vein of human capital in terms of its educated workforce.