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Permanent Rep of Mongolia addresses World Health Assembly
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the UN Office in Geneva and other international organizations Ambassador V.Purevdorj addressed Wednesday a plenary meeting themed “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” which was held in scope of the Sixty-ninth World Health Assembly kicked off on May 23 in Geneva, Switzerland.
In his speech, the Ambassador informed that Mongolian parliament passed last February a document called “Concept for sustainable development - 2030” which designs a Mongolian long-term development policy, thereby Mongolia is focusing particularly on performing policy and legal reforms and ensuring the readiness of sectors in order to make certain the development concept is implemented duly.
“Approval of the development policy document has immense significance to ensure the continuation of socio-economic policy and stability,” he underlined.
Noting that the national development goals of Mongolia have been formulated in line with the global sustainable development goals, Purevdorj elaborated that Mongolia pursues goals for abolishing preventable causes of the infant and child mortality, minimizing the rate of early mortality caused by non-infectious diseases and by birth complications and maximizing population’s longevity.
Both domestic funding and assistance from international organizations are vital for the successful achievment of the sustainable development goals for nations, Purevdorj noted, and called for the WHO and other international organizations to continue supporting the development of middle-income developing countries.
