Unctad urged to ensure investment for SDGs implementation

Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu, now in Geneva, has urged Unctad to take lead in taking supportive measures for the countries with vulnerabilities, including LDCs, ensuring adequate investment flows for SDGs implementation. ‘Unctad should take lead in ensuring that investment flows to SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals); the means of implementation are robust and effective; the support measures for the countries with vulnerabilities, including LDCs, are adequately provided,’ he said while addressing an event, titled ‘Investing in Sustainable Development: Dialogue with Parliamentarians’ which was arranged as part of the World Investment Forum-2014 in Geneva, Switzerland, on Thursday. Unctad brought the parliamentarians together at this high-level dialogue at a time when the MDGs’ timeline is approaching its end-timeline while the countries are embarking on a much inter-linked Post-2015 Development Agenda. Amu said strong partnership between Unctad, the global platform for overseeing investment and development, and Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) could be useful to collectively work on these fronts, according to a news agency.