"ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT"

Theme of the ECOSOC Operational Activities for Development Segment (23-25 May 2023): Guiding United Nations development system's support in response to interlinked crises and to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.

Theme of the ECOSOC Operational Activities for Development Segment (23-25 May 2023): Guiding United Nations development system's support in response to interlinked crises and to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals

Briefing by Bujar Osmani, Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and Minister for Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia on on the work of the OSCE.

Of the roughly 140 targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), only about 10 percent are on track to be reached by 2030, close to half are moderately or severely off track, and some 30 percent have either seen no movement or regressed below the 2015 baseline, according to a new UN report. UNIFEED

Marking the International Mother Earth Day, the President of the General Assembly said, “As humans, we are latecomers, new tenants of this world. Tenants with short term leases but with particular responsibilities.” UNIFEED

The General Assembly adopted by consensus its annual resolution on breaking the link between armed conflict and the illicit trade of rough diamonds. UNIFEED

Olga Algayerova, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), said that progress on transboundary water cooperation “is badly off track.” UNIFEED