Photo: the Silk Road NGO Cooperation Network, an international civil society network in China, held on December 1 an online seminar aiming at facilitating the implementation of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
BEIJING, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- The Silk Road NGO Cooperation Network, an international civil society network in China, held on December 1 an online seminar aiming at facilitating the implementation of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
About 50 representatives of UN institutions and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from China, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia attended the seminar.
Stefanos Fotiou, director of Environment and Development Division of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and Wang Qian, director of Project Planning of the UN Environment Programme China Office, shared the experience of UN institutions in leveraging professionalism to take effective actions to adopt decisions, issue initiatives, make plans, build cooperation platforms and implement specific programs, so as to continuously promote the solving of global problems including climate change, environmental pollution and unbalanced global development and push forward the implementation of SDGs.
Besides, the participants introduced the crucial roles of NGOs played in the fields including poverty eradication, equal access to education, gender equality and environmental protection and they called on the international community to take effective actions to promote the coordinated economic and social development in an attempt to achieve the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals as soon as possible.
The representatives also expressed their expectations for Chinese and foreign NGOs to work together even more closely, further deepen cooperation partnership and join hands to make more contribution to achieving the sustainable development goals.
The Silk Road NGO Cooperation Network was initiated by the China NGO Network for International Exchanges (CNIE), a national non-profit social group in China, and so far boasts 352 member organizations from 72 countries.
The Silk Road NGO Cooperation Network has carried out more than 400 livelihood projects and activities, becoming a very important platform to promote friendly cooperation between people of Belt and Road countries.(Edited by Yang Yifan with Xinhua Silk Road, yangyifan@xinhua.org)
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