Gordon Brown has said the poorest countries should get more aid

The UK is due to take on the presidencies of the G8 and EU next year and will pay a key role in determining the goals are met.

Mr Annan said many of the objectives including one to halve poverty by 2015 were "far from being met".

He is due to hold talks with Tony Blair and Jack Straw on Tuesday.

Focus

The UN goals also include plans to improve literacy and to end discrimination against women.

The UK Government has promised to focus on achieving the goals.

Mr Brown said: "The international movement for debt relief and additional resources for the millennium development goals is gaining momentum in the run up to 2005, a year that will be crucial in testing our resolve to fulfil our promises to the poorest of the world."

Mr Annan said he wanted to appeal to the chancellor and the British Government to work "for the necessary political breakthrough and the additional resources needed to achieve those goals".

He added: "I will be supporting the G7 donors considering seriously the chancellor's proposal for an International Finance Facility that would be capable of doubling aid flows to the developing world up to $100bn a year."