UNB, Dhaka :
Bangladesh has said it will lead from the front to secure a first-ever UN resolution on creating awareness on drowning prevention.
This long overdue resolution, if adopted, will encourage Member States and UN agencies towards preventing this menace, Bangladesh thinks.
Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN Ambassador Masud Bin Momen conveyed it to a meeting of the ‘Group of Friends on Drowning Prevention’ in New York recently, said the
Bangladesh Mission at the UN on Saturday. Ambassador Masud was presiding over the group’s meeting at the Permanent Mission of Bangladesh, which was attended, among others, by 13 members of the group and representatives from the WHO and London-based Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).
The ‘Group of Friends on Drowning Prevention’ is an informal coalition of 15 member states of the UN formed in 2017 to actively promote the group’s objectives and work to raise awareness about one of the major causes of child injury and death.
Bangladesh, along with Thailand, Vietnam, Ireland, Fiji and Tanzania, formed the ‘Group of Friends on Drowning Prevention’ in New York.
Ambassador Masud stressed that Bangladesh has reduced child mortality and infant mortality rates. “However, if we cannot bring death from drowning to ‘zero’, our successes in primary healthcare, communicable and non-communicable diseases, and therefore, achievement of SDG 3 will remain unaccomplished,” he said.
He mentioned that this global and preventable epidemic secures some much-deserved political space internationally.
He informed the meeting of the ongoing policy actions being undertaken in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh has said it will lead from the front to secure a first-ever UN resolution on creating awareness on drowning prevention.
This long overdue resolution, if adopted, will encourage Member States and UN agencies towards preventing this menace, Bangladesh thinks.
Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN Ambassador Masud Bin Momen conveyed it to a meeting of the ‘Group of Friends on Drowning Prevention’ in New York recently, said the
Bangladesh Mission at the UN on Saturday. Ambassador Masud was presiding over the group’s meeting at the Permanent Mission of Bangladesh, which was attended, among others, by 13 members of the group and representatives from the WHO and London-based Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).
The ‘Group of Friends on Drowning Prevention’ is an informal coalition of 15 member states of the UN formed in 2017 to actively promote the group’s objectives and work to raise awareness about one of the major causes of child injury and death.
Bangladesh, along with Thailand, Vietnam, Ireland, Fiji and Tanzania, formed the ‘Group of Friends on Drowning Prevention’ in New York.
Ambassador Masud stressed that Bangladesh has reduced child mortality and infant mortality rates. “However, if we cannot bring death from drowning to ‘zero’, our successes in primary healthcare, communicable and non-communicable diseases, and therefore, achievement of SDG 3 will remain unaccomplished,” he said.
He mentioned that this global and preventable epidemic secures some much-deserved political space internationally.
He informed the meeting of the ongoing policy actions being undertaken in Bangladesh.
