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Msia declares commitment to achieving UN sustainable goals

NEW YORK: Malaysia stands with the international community that favours the need for solidarity under the United Nations to deal with conflict, diseases and climate change through sustainable goals.

The firm declaration in the National Statement was delivered by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi here yesterday in the 15-minute debate slot allocated in the ongoing 71st United Nations General Assembly.

Zahid said, as a democratic country, at the home front, Malaysia has long held to a people-centred development agenda that runs parallel with what the UN aspires in its bid to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all.

“Malaysia is committed to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals therein,” he said of the 17 point plan that came into force this year after it was adopted in the 70th assembly.

In the opening of the assembly, UN president Peter Thomson in his debut announced the theme “The Sustainable Development Goals: A Universal Push to Transform our World”, setting the ball rolling to gain support from the 193 member states.

With the message delivered, many pledged efforts to end poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change, while ensuring that no one is left behind in the general debates which started on Sept 20 and ends tomorrow.

Zahid said Malaysia has set in motion initiatives and actions to achieve the 2030 Agenda.

“Our current five-year development plan, the 11th Malaysia Plan (11thMP) covering the period of 2016 to 2020, was formulated with people at the centre of all development efforts and with the theme, ‘anchoring growth on people’.

“The Plan embraces three main principles – achieving high income, inclusiveness, and sustainability. In many aspects, the plan mirrors the multi-dimensional nature of the UN- inspired sustainable development growths,” he said.

In implementing the 2030 agenda, the sustainable development growths are now being integrated into the 11thMP launched in May this year by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

A roadmap is also being formulated to oversee implementation and monitoring of the growths mooted by outgoing UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon who is stepping down after 10 years.

Among the programmes to be incorporated are the Technical and Vocational Educational Training (TVET), Malaysian Global and Innovation Centre (MaGIC) and the National Blue Ocean Strategy. TVET helps prepare youths for the labour market and graduates have a 90 per cent employability rate; MaGIC will serve as an entrepreneurial system, while the NBOS, which involves over 80 government entities, allows for a smart collaboration of its energies to serve the people.

Malaysia’s unique Urban Transformation Centres and Rural Transformation Centres, which provides a multitude of government services under one roof, was developed with the NBOS.

In the fight against terrorism, Zahid said Malaysia offers its experience in dealing with extremists through deradicalisation and rehabilitation programmes, an approach which the country has a 97.5 percent success rate, to counter the growing threat comprehensively.

“The rise in the phenomenon of non-state actors, such as Da’esh, Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab, has caused instability and insecurity of nations,” he said, while stressing that no country is safe from the threat of terrorism.

“We need to counter it from the ideological perspective, by countering the narratives and addressing the root causes of issues that could be manipulated to attract people into supporting these groups.

“We need to explore new solutions and continuously work to enhance our domestic legal framework in the fight against violent extremism,” he said.

On climate change, Malaysia is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emission intensity of its Gross Domestic Product or GDP by up to 45 per cent by year 2030 in accordance with the Paris Agreement.

-New Straits Times

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