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UN SUMMIT APPROVES THE POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA

Date: 
Friday, 25 September 2015

The United Nations Summit for the adoption of the new framework, "Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” is being held from 25 to 27 September 2015, in New York. The UN Sustainable Development Summit is attended by world leaders, heads of state and government from more than 150 countries. The delegation headed by H.E. Mr. Tsakhia Elbegdorj, President of Mongolia, is attending the Summit. 

Today the 193 Member States of the United Nations formally adopted the new framework, "Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” at the United Nations Summit convened as a high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly in New York. It is a historic document which sets the next 15 years of development agenda of the countries in the world. 

In 2001 member states of the UN adopted the  Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in which they committed to achieving a set of goals to improve overall human conditions, reduce extreme poverty, strengthen human rights and democracy, and to protect the global environment goals by the target date of 2015. The MDGs have been reflected in Mongolia at the Government policy level. In 2005 the Mongolian State Great Hural (Parliament) adopted the MDGs as its national development targets. Mongolia also adopted an additional Goal 9 to "Strengthen human rights and foster democratic governance". Mongolia is one of the few countries to focus on democratic governance, human rights as conditions necessary to achieve the MDGs. In 2008 Mongolia revised its MDGs and adopted 24 targets with 67 indicators to implement the MDGs.

The outcome document, “the Future We Want”, of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development - Rio+20 which took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2012 set out a mandate to establish an Open Working Group to develop a set of sustainable development goals. The Open Working Group held 13 sessions in 2013-2014 resulting in extensive discussions and negotiations. Accordingly, the 17 SDGs and 169 targets were drafted by the OWG. The negotiating process featured not only the unprecedented participation of all the member states, but also extensive involvement of the civil society and the private sector. 

While attaching great importance to issues pertaining to poverty, unemployment, education, climate change, land degradation, water, enviromental pollution, green development and special needs of landlocked developing countries, the Mongolian delegation actively participated in the intergovernmental negotiations and reflected its positions and proposals in the final outcome document.

 

Permanent Mission of Mongolia to the United Nations

September 25, 2015