Hasina calls for global support

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Bangladesh and other developing countries need global support on finance, technology, capacity building and debt to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

"The international community must deliver on the means of implementation for each goal of the SGDs. We also must ensure that global trading and financial regime and institutions are fair and just," she told the UN summit for the adoption of the Post-2015 Development Agenda at UN headquarters here on Sunday.

The PM called upon the international community to ensure that the new climate deal in the forthcoming conference in Paris would be able to materialise the SDGs for protecting and harnessing the present and future of humanity.

Heads of states and governments of Brazil, Venezuela, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Russia, Qatar, the Maldives, Singapore and Saudi Arabia also made statements in the session, chaired by Gambia.

Hasina said governments have to recognise the diverse national realities, capacities and levels of development to make sure the SDGs are implemented.

She hoped that everybody would have the same ambition, focus and commitment to materialise a deal in Paris as they showed it in the case of adopting the SDGs.

On the adoption of SDG Agenda-2030, she said: "Bangladesh, as part of its national preparation, has aligned its Seventh Five-Year Plan with the new global agenda."

About the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the PM said Bangladesh over the last 15 years mobilised people and resources to realise the commitments.

The realisation of the MDGs helped Bangladesh step in the path of elevating the country as a middle-income one, Hasina added.

She said the key to Bangladesh's success to achieve MDGs was her government's political commitment and a conducive policy environment.

Some of Bangladesh's solutions and experiences are now part of the global solutions, she noted. "Now, we all must pledge to full and effective realisation of the Agenda 2030 and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda."

PM AT PUBLIC RECEPTION

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has categorically said Bangladesh will march ahead to emerge as a developed country by 2041 and no one will be able to undermine it as poor.

"We'll live with our head held high; nobody can dismiss us as poor," she told a public reception at New York's Hilton Midtown Hotel on Sunday.

Hasina said Bangladesh, without depending on others, has been advancing towards prosperity to stand before the world community as a dignified nation.

Awami League leaders Dipu Moni, Hasan Mahmud, Misbauddin Siraj and Abdus Sobhan Golap also spoke at the programme, organised by the US chapter of the AL.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith, Foreign Minister AH Mahmud Ali and Prime Minister's Adviser Mashiur Rahman were present, among others.