Convener National Taskforce on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Member National Assembly Romina Khursid Alam on Wednesday said Pakistan was the first country in the world to accept the SDGs as its national development agenda to ensure sustainable human development in conformity with globally set targets ensuring well being for all.
The Convener of SDGs national task force was delivering her opening remarks at two-day National Meet on the SDGs jointly organised by the SDGs Secretariat in collaboration with Mustehkam Parlimaan, a project of the European Union (EU) in Pakistan flanked by Speaker National Assembly Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal and Ambassador and Head of the Delegation of the EU to Pakistan, Dr Riina Kionka.
Romina said the pandemic of COVID-19 taught great lessons to the country as it aggravated the scourge of hunger, poverty, inequalities, gender disparity and serious health crisis that demanded the government to prepare a well-informed and coordinated effort at the national and local levels to meet the development goals.
“I would like to commend former National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq for his efforts in notifying the SDGs taskforce at the national level and setting up a separate secretariat for the cause at the national level.—APP
