Most significant achievement in 2004 was the adoption of a National Sustainable Socio-Economic Development Strategy (NSDS) up to 2020. NSDS-2020 serves to take into consideration domestic and foreign developments and changes of recent years, as well as the essential policy documents adopted by Belarus, new international agreements, including the UN Millennium Declaration, Political Declaration and Action Plan of the World Summit on Sustainable Development. NSDS-2020 primarily focuses on the peculiarities and patterns of the forecast period, follow-up to the "Agenda 21".