In addition to the New York Declaration, the summit prompted the UK and Norway to pledge hundreds of millions of dollars to help countries clamp down on deforestation.
A decade and many reports, declarations and summits later, the MDGs have ballooned into an all-encompassing skirt under which any development-related concept can scurry and find, if not a home, then at least an official mention.
The Summit Declaration, through a resolution on "Child Care and Protection in the Islamic World", called upon the OIC and ISESCO, in conjunction with UNICEF, to convene the First Islamic Ministerial Meeting on Children.
The wording in the summit declaration licensing forced deportations also met stiff resistance and had to be changed.
The opening line of the official summit declaration simply states "our imperative is to promote growth and jobs".
The vague summit declaration by EU leaders amounted to a gamble that the markets would back off without being told precisely how the EU planned to help Greece.
This summit declaration went a few steps further than the statement agreed on after the last meeting of Arab heads of state, in 1996.
This problem has been recognised by numerous governments, including the Group of Eight (G8) - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, United Kingdom, and United States - in its 2007 summit declaration.
Tsipras wanted a favourable summit declaration to take home with him, but the meeting ended late on Monday night without granting him that.
But on Sunday, Mr. Sharif, reading in English a "summit declaration," said, "The coalition partners are ready to form the governments, and the national and provincial assemblies should be convened immediately".
