Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina has said her government is learning from its past experiences and at times from mistakes as 'our past makes us stronger,' reports BSS.
"We learn from our past experiences and at times from mistakes. Our past makes us stronger. Let's keep in mind the lessons taught by our past and build our future based on what we have learned," she mentioned in a write-up.
"Let's keep in mind that all that is ever important is the 'now' in which we live in and all that is going to be important is the 'tomorrow' that we leave for our children," she added.
The write-up titled "2015 is going to be a milestone in world history" was published in the prestigious New Europe magazine's special edition, "Our World in 2015", on January 7. The English-language weekly based in Brussels, Belgium is being published since 1993.
Sheikh Hasina said: "As we are stepping into the New Year, we need to have an image of 2015 and also beyond."
The PM said the future is not entirely unpredictable and the best way to predict our future is to create it ourselves. "Our world in 2015 and post-2015 will be what we now dream it to be. How it will look will depend largely on what our actions are now. Our actions should therefore reflect our words and that is the only way we can predict and build a tangible future," she said.
Sheikh Hasina said: "Our vision for the world beyond 2015 should focus on people - on the aspirations and hopes of the people - in a just and a fair world.
"This is largely steered by promoting a culture of peace, right to development, right for equal future, empowerment of people particularly women and the underprivileged, access to education for all, health and greater economic opportunities - thus ensuring a secular, progressive and democratic human society. Realising these visions depends on every human being of this world, public and government alike," she said.
"Poverty and ignorance are the greatest impediments to development and therefore eradication of poverty and access to education should remain at the very heart of contemporary development debate of the Post-2015 Development Agenda. With 60 million children still remaining outside schools, 75 per cent of them girls, and 1.3 billion people still living in extreme poverty, we can never really attain sustainable development unless we address these issues," she added.
