New global development agenda is world's collective response to challenges: Pakistani PM

Pakistan said here Sunday that the new global development agenda is the world's collective response to challenges, and the new journey has just begun to strive for sustainable development in the world at large.

The statement came as Nawaz Sharif, the prime minister of Pakistan, took the floor at the UN Summit for the Adoption of the Post-2015 Development Agenda, a three-day event which began here Friday.

"By adopting the Post-2015 Development Agenda, we, as the global community, are committing ourselves to a shared vision of inclusive growth and development, ensuring that 'no one is left behind'," he said. "This is an agenda reflective of both ambition and action in our joint effort against poverty, hunger and human deprivation."

"The Post-2015 Development Agenda is our collective response to these challenges," he said, referring to current challenges of poverty, inequality, and lack of opportunity. "It represents a giant leap forward."

World leaders on Friday formally adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, along with a set of bold new Global Goals, which are a universal, integrated and transformative vision for a better world.

"The Agenda posits itself on the three dimensions of sustainable development: social justice, environmental stewardship and economic wellbeing," he said. "It is thus, an Agenda of change, which enjoys inherent vitality, as well as wide social acceptability."

"The scope and magnitude of this new development framework is enormous," he said. "Delivering on it would require unwavering political will, both at the national and the international levels. Its implementation requires a paradigm shift in our political, social, economic and development outlook." Endit