Yunus urges UN to help nations implement SDGs
Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus has called upon the United Nations to support the developing nations to successfully achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Yunus termed the adoption of the 2030 development agenda as a historical event as it will give a new shape to the future world.
“The next challenge will be to make SDGs a household word to guide the family's daily life throughout the world,” he said.
The founder of Grameen Bank made the comments during a meeting of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon with his advisers on the Millennium Development Goals Advocacy Group in New York earlier this week. The advisers also helped him formulate the SDGs.
Yunus, a founding member of the MDG Advocacy Group, thanked the UN chief for getting the SDGs adopted by the UN general assembly, Yunus Centre in Dhaka said in a statement.
A number of group members including Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda; Erna Solberg, prime minister of Norway; Jeffrey Sachs, an expert on economic development; and Ted Turner, American media mogul and philanthropist, also attended the meeting.
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