“Your recommendations, hopefully, will eventually align with our administration’s blueprint to urgently transform our economy, from one dominated by primary extraction and low-creativity agriculture and services, to one of high value addition.“
Jonathan expressed the hope that the Post-2015 Development Agenda would have a positive impact on the development trajectory of nations around the world, if the new set of goals tackled the issues that were neglected under the current framework.
In his remark, Mr Daouda Toure, who is UN Resident Coordinator and also UNDP Resident Representative, said the post-2015 agenda would provide Nigeria with a lot of opportunities to fulfil its shared responsibility.
According to him, from all indications, the new agenda will be a continuation of MDGs and will seek to complete the unfinished business of MDGs.
“It will address new development challenges in a way that the MDGs did not foresee, from climate change to food security, population bulge, inequalities, socio-political instability, non-communicable diseases and unemployment,“ he said.
Toure assured that UN and other development partners would continue to work with the government to achieve the new global development agenda.
Earlier, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on MDGs, Mrs Precious Gbeneol, said the summit was part of government’s efforts at setting the post-2015 agenda for the improvement of the lives of the citizens. (NAN)
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