Editing Millennium Development Goals (section)

=== United States ===
However, the United States as well as other nations disputed the [[Monterrey Consensus]] that urged "developed countries that have not done so to make concrete efforts towards the target of 0.7% of gross national product (GNP) as ODA to developing countries".<ref>{{cite web |title=United Nations Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development |url=http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/documents/07_aconf198-11.pdf |access-date=14 October 2012}}</ref><ref>[http://www.usunnewyork.usmission.gov/fact_sheet/ecosoc_Chapter_4_apr15.pdf] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090508175513/http://www.usunnewyork.usmission.gov/fact_sheet/ecosoc_Chapter_4_apr15.pdf|date=8 May 2009}}</ref>

The US consistently opposed setting specific foreign-aid targets since the [[United Nations General Assembly|UN General Assembly]] first endorsed the 0.7% goal in 1970.<ref>{{cite news |last=Engardio |first=Pete |date=2 September 2005 |title=Bush Balks at Pact to Fight Poverty |url=https://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/3790_file_BW_9_2_05.pdf |access-date=2021-05-13 |work=BusinessWeek online}}</ref>