IIMSAM Official Hopes World Summit on MDGs Would Craft New Proportions in Achieving the Targets
IIMSAM Middle East Director & Goodwill Ambassador Dr. Naseer Homoud wished that World Summit on United Nations Millennium Development Goals shall pave new dimension and renewed commitment from governments towards ensuring the accomplishment of laid targets which are of utmost importance for humanity.
- (1888PressRelease) September 20, 2010 - Dr. Naseer Homoud Goodwill Ambassador and Director of Middle East office for the Intergovernmental Institution for the use of Micro-algae Spirulina against Malnutrition (IIMSAM), the Permanent Observer to the United Nations Economic and Social Council while extending congratulations to the United Nations on organizing the Summit on MDGs said "we have high hopes on this Summit and we are certain that a new dimension to achieve the targets as laid down in MDGs would be ensured by world leaders attending the Summit".
Leaders from around the world will meet in New York from Monday to Wednesday (20-22 September) for the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Summit. During the three day high level meeting that takes place at the UN Headquarters, they are to review progress, identify gaps and commit to a concrete action agenda to achieve MDGs by the agreed deadline, year 2015. A decade ago, at the Millennium Summit in September 2000, all member countries of the United Nations joined together in a 15-year effort to combat poverty, hunger and disease. They agreed that urgent action must be taken to save the lives of the mothers dying needlessly in childbirth, to get the millions of children missing out of education into school, to fight the spread of killer diseases and first and foremost to halve the number of people living in extreme poverty and hunger across the world.
Speaking on dire need to accomplish MDGs Dr. Homoud said "The Millennium Declaration symbolizes the vital commitments ever committed to the marginalized people and they look world community with high aspirations for changing their lives. We have to ensure the smile and happiness on their face and if we fail, destiny shall never pardon us". He further advocated for 'unconditional support' from all corners including governments and other stakeholders towards achieving MDGs as set by the United Nations.
Ten years ago, 189 world leaders met at the United Nations Millennium Summit and agreed to make dramatic global development gains by 2015. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were borne out of that meeting-eight concrete targets that focus international efforts on areas such as reducing poverty and hunger, improving health and education, and combating major diseases. Achieving targets of MDGs and issues affecting thereto are something no one country can achieve alone, these are global challenges, and need a global response and it is high time for governments to adjust focus on the poorest of the poor if they are to come close to meeting the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, asserted Dr. Homoud. He further urged participants of the Summit to conclude it with some vital and instrumental decisions and stressed that unless an urgent rescue package is developed to accelerate achieving all the Millennium Development Goals, and if wealthy countries do not act now to bolster international aid flows, the deadline of 2015 will be hard to meet and if we fail this would be an unexpected combined collapse.
The Millennium Development Goals Report-2010 issued from the good offices of Secretary General reveals that to achieve the target, more sincere and honest efforts are needed. In this context Dr. Homoud urged "Since MDGs are multifaceted in character and therefore necessitates concerted action by stakeholders from all levels. I take this opportunity to call on the governments and stakeholders for a comprehensive international partnership on the issues of global warming, eradication of poverty and hunger and for strengthening food production and food security policies".
Governments and stakeholders must come up with strong commitment to promote employment through structural policies, work to address excessive commodity price volatility by improving the functioning and transparency of physical and financial markets and promoting a closer dialogue between producer and consumer countries. "It is not an unattainable task to achieve the MDGs in its given deadline; what we need is the implementation of the commitments and if this being the case let me assure that we are set to achieve the target", said Dr. Homoud. He urged that the upcoming Summit is an opportunity for governments to reaffirm their commitment while redefining strategies that promote progress throughout a complex process, yet ensuring a roadmap that the world community could follow, in situation where nearly 5 years are left for achieving the goals. "What is needed is commitment and delivery of collective political will to foster international consensus, public policy, technical and institutional capacity, as well as the financial resources, in order to ensure the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, he said.
IIMSAM is calling on world leaders to work together with diverse actors, in new ways, to build on successes and finish the job they have started, arguing that if development commitments are not addressed poverty, hunger and conflict may further exacerbate global financial and economic instability. We must make greater efforts to mobilize the resources necessary to meet the Millennium Development Goals and this would be a wise investment for the future and if we fail it will only make our task in the future much more difficult and much more costly, asserted Dr. Homoud.
IIMSAM believes that promise in the Millennium Development Goal to reduce hunger and poverty by half of the year 2015 can only be redeemed by serious thinking, planning and action. Dr. Naseer further added "when we look the other side, there are impending challenges for the mankind. The global challenge of climate change has to be kept in mind while formulating policies for countering the menace of global food crisis". The nature of crisis asks for global and concerted efforts on the part of world bodies, governments and civil society groups to tackle it. This upcoming Summit must be taken as an opportunity to address this grave issue keeping in consideration the global needs of food to usher in the era of global food security regime, efforts for eradicating poverty and others directly or circuitously issues related to MDGs. "IIMSAM under visionary guidance of its DG, H.E Ambassador R. Maradona is committed, among others, towards UN MDGs Number 1 to reduce extreme poverty and hunger", concluded Dr. Homoud.
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