Noting with concern that over 100 million children are not in school and some 800 million adults are illiterate today, that the issue of illiteracy may not be sufficiently high on national agendas to generate the kind of political and economic support required to address global illiteracy challenges, and that the world is unlikely to meet those challenges if the present trends continue,
关切地注意到目前仍有逾10亿儿童失学，约8亿成年人不识字；扫盲问题在各国议事日程上可能尚未获得充分重视，未能产生应付全球文盲问题的挑战所需的政治和经济支持；如果目前的趋势持续下去，世界势必无法应付这些挑战，