MNA Romina Khurshid Alam, Convener of the National Parliamentary Taskforce on SDGs, has urged all the countries of the Asia Pacific region to join hands for achieving the sustainable development goals, set by the United Nations.

Addressing the Third Inter-Parliamentary Union Regional Seminar on Achieving Sustainable Development Goals for Parliaments of Asia Pacific on Tuesday, she said that sustainable development goals (SDGs) were related to the survival of the human race.

She said that indicators existed for 17 SDGs while monitoring systems were being set as the basis of a new social contract between the world leaders and their people.

The seminar was jointly organised by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the National Assembly of Pakistan to improve coordination amongst Asia Pacific countries for devising ways and means to achieve sustainable prosperity while leaving no one behind.

The two-day event covers all essential aspects of agenda 2030 comprising plenary sessions on SDGs implementation in the Asia Pacific region; mechanisms and practices to institutionalise SDGs; women at the centre of the development agenda and building resilience to preserve a common future.

In addition, there will be breakout sessions on ending hunger and malnutrition, quality education, and equitable access to health.

The MNA said that it was the right time to strengthen the regions of Asia Pacific by building up a networking group for joint work in tackling the challenges. She said that it was their ambition to protect biodiversity, achieve gender equality, end poverty and hunger and fulfil the promise of the SDGs.

She requested the IPU secretariat to facilitate the effort to streamline and align the countries for the cause, according to a press release received by WealthPK.

Credit : Independent News Pakistan-WealthPk