Declaring it a crisis point which he said has significantly derailed the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), President Irfaan Ali said that “be it food, energy, climate [or] the destabilizing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic,” the combined effect of those crises has hindered the achievement of the goals.
The Guyanese Head-of-State was at the time addressing a High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development at the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York yesterday, where he stressed the importance of global partnerships.
Ali said that “a major part of the problem is the lack of progress with Goal 17 on global partnerships and the failure of the international community to deliver on its commitments” to developing countries.