NEW YORK: United Nations General Assembly has adopted 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development which includes the monumental task of uprooting poverty, fighting inequality and tackling climate change.
While addressing the world leaders on this occasion, Secretary General UN Ban Ki-Moon said the Agenda was a vision for changed, strong and better world. He said world leaders had pledged to work for betterment of people in the world.
Prime minister’s advisor for national security Sartaj Aziz represented Pakistan in the Sustainable Development Summit, while PM Nawaz Sharif will address the Summit on the last day.
The UN Development Group pledged its collaboration and ‘the necessary coordination’ with all the member states.
‘The transformation of our world for which the 2030 Agenda calls is a tall order,’ UN Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Helen Clark told a meeting of the UNDG chaired by herself.
‘But we all appreciate what it will mean for the well-being of people, including the one billion who continue to live in extreme poverty, on under $1.25 per day and the prospects of the one planet on which we all depend,’ she said, of the common approach, called MAPS – for ‘Mainstreaming, Acceleration, and Policy Support.’
