The number exceeded the planned target of 200.

We therefore propose not just to meet the Goals, but to exceed them.

We commend those countries that have already reached or exceeded the 0.7 per cent target.

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Germany aims to achieve a maximum rate of dangerous duds of one per cent.

There have been more than 26,000 terrorist attacks perpetrated against Israeli targets during the past five years.

Currently only Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden meet or exceed the 0.7 per cent target.

So far, only Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden have met or exceeded the 0.7 per cent target.

Moreover, the electoral system resulted in over 31 per cent of seats being awarded to female candidates surpassing the goal established in the Transitional Administrative Law.

Our celebrations, however, should have a noble purpose beyond honouring the past and the present.

It has been over 15 years since Azerbaijan became the target of Armenian terrorism.

The target was reached in 2004 and will be dramatically surpassed in 2005 as a result of the tsunami income.

These targets have been surpassed by far by December 1996, 14.3 million persons had joined the contributory scheme.

It included, and also went beyond, the Millennium Development Goals.

By July 2004 the objective had been achieved and even surpassed, with 27 women officers.

In 17 cases, although the value of the contracts exceeded 200,000, the time allowed for bidding was less than four weeks.

In 11 cases, excess expenditure was more than 10,000 and over 5 per cent of the allocation.

There are over 40,000 described species of spiders.

Indeed, several of them have been accomplished and surpassed.

The current legislation requires that TRAC 1.1.2 not exceed the level of a programme country's TRAC 1.1.1 earmarking.

In 1997, the programme exceeded its mine clearance target by 15 per cent.

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There are now over 200 formal transition projects.

The Bank said the overshoot relative to its 2 target was entirely down to the weak pound.

This means that donors will have not only reached, but even slightly surpassed, the Conference target for 2005 (see figure I).

That integrated approach is far more promising than insistence on official development assistance supply targets.

Kuwait's average assistance rate of 1.3 of its gross national income between 1990 and 2003 had exceeded the target percentage.

That assistance exceeds the percentage recommended by international conferences on development and the Millennium Development Goals.

In middle income countries and others where the Goals are already within reach, Governments should adopt a Millennium Development Goals plus strategy, with more ambitious targets.

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As stated above, the objectives of the security projects and the time lines established for full implementation proved to be too ambitious when compared to the available staffing resources.

Coca cultivation had fallen from 7,249 hectares at the start of the project to 792 hectares by the end of 1995, a reduction of 6,457 hectares, exceeding the original target.

At the moment, the UN is considering 169 new development targets to succeed the Millennium Development Goals (hunger is one target area, among many). These targets are vitally important, because they will determine how more than 2.5 trillion in development money is spent on everything from climate change to malaria.

Noting with appreciation those departments and offices that have achieved the goal of gender balance, as well as those departments that have met or exceeded the goal of 50 per cent in the selection of women candidates for vacant posts in the past year,

This significantly exceeded the target of 600,000 set for that year.

Following the Second World War and the emergence of the welfare State in Western countries, societies in North America, Western Europe and Japan attained and surpassed goals comparable to the Millennium Development Goals.

(c) A return to negotiations and the lifting of closures and curfews in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip could lead to the programme surpassing its targets.

As a whole, Asia and the Pacific region is expected to meet the income poverty target of 1 a day by 2015, and may even surpass it by a significant margin.

At present, four out of the five countries that exceed the United Nations target for official development assistance (ODA) of 0.7 per cent of GNP are members of the European Union.

What we're also missing is blue carbon, which, by the way, is the largest store of carbon more than 55 percent.

The MDGs have engendered impressive progress in poverty reduction, public health, school enrollment, gender equality in education, and other areas. Since 1990 (the reference date for the targets), the global rate of extreme poverty has been reduced by well over half more than fulfilling the agenda s number one goal.

I thank the few rich countries that have attained or exceeded the target of 0.7 per cent of national income as official development assistance (ODA).