Wednesday, September 10 2014

Armenia has joined the "Sustainable
Development Goal, 2015-2030" programme.

 

As Ms. Amalya Grigoryan, Conflict Prevention Officer
at Armenian United Nations Association, told ArmInfo correspondent, Armenia is
among the countries where the national consultations were held to reveal the
problems which are still relevant today. Last year the consultations were
organized in Shirak, Syunik, Vayots Dzor and Gegarkunik regions, as a result of
which 6 priorities were separated:  the
economic growth and employment, inequality, food safety, environment and
sustainable development, health and effective management. So, in case of
Armenia, when implementing the "Sustainable Development Goal
2015-2030" programme. the main attention will be paid just at the given
priorities. The final goal of the programme is to decrease of the poverty
level. The programme will be endorsed in 2015.

 

To recall, in September 2000, building upon a decade
of major United Nations conferences and summits, world leaders came together at
United Nations Headquarters in New York to adopt the United Nations Millennium
Declaration, committing their nations to a new global partnership to reduce
extreme poverty and setting out a series of time-bound targets - with a
deadline of 2015 - that have become known as the Millennium Development Goals.
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) - which range from halving
extreme poverty rates to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal
primary education, all by the target date of 2015 - form a blueprint agreed to
by all the world's countries and all the world's leading development
institutions.

 

Amalya Grigoryan stressed that
the evaluation of the Millennium Development Goals results worldwide
demonstrates that the countries in conflict or under the threat of conflict
were unable to achieve satisfactory results. At the moment, the Armenian United
Nations Association (AUNA) is implementing the "Freedom From
Violence:  Peace, Security and Conflict
Prevention in the Post-2015 Development Agenda" Project. The project aims
to build the capacity of key stakeholders to be able to engage in dialogue on
the post-2015 development agenda and to advocate for, provide strategic policy
options and influence decision makers to include peace, security and conflict
prevention. AUNA is cooperating with the academic community, mass media,
representatives of the civil society and politicians.