The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are vital and integral to the targets of the country's Medium-Term Philippine Development Plan (MTPDP) 2004-2010 stressed Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Romulo L. Neri (second from left) during the second regional consultation meeting on the MDGs in Asia and the Pacific held in the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The MTPDP provided targets to meet by 2010, which are comparable with [and some are more ambitious] compared to the targets set by the MDGs by 2015. With Neri are Asian Development Bank's Regional and Sustainable Development Department Director General Bindu N. Luhani (third from left) and United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific's (UNESCAP) Poverty and Development Division Director Raj Kumar (leftmost).cosystems.