Thursday on the 13th of July, Prime Minister Evelyn Wever-Croes announced that she will be attending the High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development Goals held in the United Nations Headquarters in New York. In this meeting, the SDGs of th Dutch Kingdom will be relayed together with Minister Schreinemacher from the Netherlands Hulanda as well as the Prime Minister of Sint Maarten, Silveria Jacobs.
On this day, there will be various important meetings which will host various different countries. Aruba’s participation in these events is a huge opportunity to position our island as a global partner in the sustainable development movement as well as a way to create more opportunities for our island to continue implementing them.
For this event, Aruba has prepared a speech as to why the SDGs arebeing implemtneted and this will be presented to the United Nations together with the other topics brought forward by the Kingdom.
The SDG Aruba commission has organized various sessions to involve the entire community and for them to familiarize themselves as to how local businesses are implementing the SGDs. Based on this, the speech was prepared for the Prime Minister to present at the meeting on the 14th of July.
The Kingdom’s speech, which includes Aruba, can be found by clicking this link: https://hlpf.un.org/…/voluntary-national-review-2022
