UNB, Dhaka :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday underscored the need for a well-coordinated global roadmap to face Covid-19 crisis and urged the United Nations to continue to play its catalytic role in this regard.
“We need a well-coordinated roadmap to face Covid-19 crisis. The 2030 Agenda, the Paris Agreement, and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda canbe our blueprint to overcome this crisis. The UN must continue to play its catalytic role in this regard,” she said.
The Prime Minister said this while delivering her pre-recorded speech in the ‘High-Level Event on Financing for Development in the Era of Covid-19 and Beyond’ held at the UN Headquarters.
Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Michael Holness, and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres convened the meeting.
Sheikh Hasina highlighted six points before the world leaders to have a better coordinated roadmap to face the Covid-19 crisis.
Firstly, she said, the G-7, G-20, OECD countries, MDBs, and IFIs should scale up fiscal stimulus, concessional finance, and debt relief measures. The advanced economies must fulfill their 0.7 percent ODA commitment.
“Secondly, we need to divert more private finance and investment to the developing countries. We must leverage science, technology and innovation for closing the digital divide.”
Thirdly, she said, right policy steps needed for reversing the downward trend of remittance flow by helping the migrant workers during and in the post-Covid job market.
Fourthly, the Prime Minister said, the advanced economies must fulfill their unmet promises regarding duty- and quota-free market access, technology support, and more accessible financing for developing countries.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday underscored the need for a well-coordinated global roadmap to face Covid-19 crisis and urged the United Nations to continue to play its catalytic role in this regard.
“We need a well-coordinated roadmap to face Covid-19 crisis. The 2030 Agenda, the Paris Agreement, and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda canbe our blueprint to overcome this crisis. The UN must continue to play its catalytic role in this regard,” she said.
The Prime Minister said this while delivering her pre-recorded speech in the ‘High-Level Event on Financing for Development in the Era of Covid-19 and Beyond’ held at the UN Headquarters.
Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Michael Holness, and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres convened the meeting.
Sheikh Hasina highlighted six points before the world leaders to have a better coordinated roadmap to face the Covid-19 crisis.
Firstly, she said, the G-7, G-20, OECD countries, MDBs, and IFIs should scale up fiscal stimulus, concessional finance, and debt relief measures. The advanced economies must fulfill their 0.7 percent ODA commitment.
“Secondly, we need to divert more private finance and investment to the developing countries. We must leverage science, technology and innovation for closing the digital divide.”
Thirdly, she said, right policy steps needed for reversing the downward trend of remittance flow by helping the migrant workers during and in the post-Covid job market.
Fourthly, the Prime Minister said, the advanced economies must fulfill their unmet promises regarding duty- and quota-free market access, technology support, and more accessible financing for developing countries.
