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Nyusi urges international partners to respect undertakings

6:15 CAT | 22 Sep 2016

webtv.un.org / President Nyusi during his remarks to the UN General assembly

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Wednesday stressed the importance of partners respecting the undertakings given in the framework of the agreed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by world leaders at a United Nations summit a year ago.

Addressing the UN General Assembly in New York, Nyusi stressed that aid for developing countries should be predictable under the terms of the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness.

This, he added, would create solid institutional bases for efficient and effective implementation of the UN’s “Agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development”.

Nyusi said that the greatest challenge to the SDGs lies in implementation, particularly in aligning them with global and regional resources, and ensuring adequate financing, monitoring and inclusion.

The President believed that the theme for this session of the General Assembly – “The Sustainable Development Goals: a Universal Push to Transform our World” – was very appropriate, since 2016 marks the start of a new era in implementing the global development agenda.

“Agenda 2030 for sustainable development reflects the collective ambition and global consensus on the need to speed up the creation of conditions so that the efforts to eradicate poverty and build development are centred on human beings”, he said.

He added that the SDGs are a tool with enormous potential for promoting far-reaching changes in the vision of development and to ensure that no country and no individual is left behind. By including the dimension of peace and stability, Agenda 2030 “recognizes that peace and development are indivisible”, stressed Nyusi.

He warned that reforming the United Nations itself, and particularly the Security Council, had become urgent. “Carrying out the global agenda require collective commitment to strengthen the multinational institutions”, Nyusi said.

In Mozambique, he continued, the government’s five year programme for 2015-2019 already reflects the principles of sustainable development.

He said the government has set up a national reference group to monitor and report on the implementation of the SDGs. The group consists of government, civil society and private business representatives, parliamentarians, academics and cooperation partners. It will accompany elected indicators to assess whether the country is on track for meeting the SDGs by the cut-off date of 2030.

It will also discuss financing policies and the factors constraining success in achieving the SDGs. “It is intended to make implementation of the SGDs more inclusive, coherent and transparent”, said Nyusi.

Source: AIM