It promotes the active involvement of parents and communities in providing the full range of health, nutrition, early education and social services programs to meet the basic needs of young children from birth to age six for their optimum growth and development.

In exercising the right to free and responsible parenthood, parents are obliged to provide optimum conditions for healthy growth and development to their children, in the family and in society.

The Ministers noted the effects of an unjust global economic system which severely impede the ability of Member Countries to realise their optimum potentials for economic growth and development.

The Ministers recognised that the existing imbalances in the information system result in adverse effects on the global economic system and thereby impede the ability of Member Countries to realise their optimum potentials for economic growth and development.

The Ministers noted the effects of an inequitable global economic system which severely impede the ability of Member Countries to realize their optimum potentials for economic growth and development.

The Ministers noted the effects of an inequitable global economic system which severely impede the ability of Member Countries to realise their optimum potentials for economic growth and development.