The Minister for Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, met with the members of the Bureau and spokespeople from the political groups of the Congressional and Senate International Development Cooperation Committees to offer cooperation and consensus ahead of the United Nations International Conference on Financing for Development.
Albares, who held this meeting with MPs and senators in the Santa Cruz Palace, took the opportunity to highlight the importance of the event that Seville will host between 30 June and 3 July, stressing that the Conference aims to approve a new paradigm of financing for development that contributes to enabling the effective implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs.
In February 2024, UN members chose Spain to host the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4). After two years of work at different levels with Member States and the Secretariat, Spain’s selection confirms the perception of our country as a balanced interlocutor and an actor capable of forging consensus.
Albares said that this conference represents a fantastic opportunity for the international community to push for the mobilisation of all policies and resources to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda at the global level, and this will take place with only five years left until the end of the Agenda. Developing countries consider this Conference one of the critical milestones in the development agenda.
The minister emphasised that this will be an opportunity for Spain to consolidate its multilateral profile by strengthening its position as a major partner of the United Nations, increasing its weight in a priority global agenda.
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