Islamabad, January 18, 2023 (PPI-OT):Parliamentary Task Force for Sustainable Development Goals convener Ms. Rumina Khursheed Alam, the head of the parliamentary delegation visiting Belgium to Pakistan, Alicia Claes along with the delegation met at the Parliament House on Tuesday. In the meeting Pakistan-Belgium bilateral relations. Pakistan attaches great importance to its parliamentary and diplomatic relations with Belgium.
He said that the National Assembly of Pakistan is the first parliament in the world which is paying special attention to the achievement of sustainable development goals. He said that the SDGs Secretariat was established in the National Assembly of Pakistan in 2016 and along with this, secretariats will also be established in the Legislative Assembly of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly, including the four provinces.
Rumina Khursheed Alam, convener of Pakistan’s National Assembly, has said that the Parliamentary Task Force for Sustainable Development Goals in the country it is working towards achieving 17 goals of sustainable development. He said that SDGs had organized a two-day national dialogue last year in which the speakers of the four provinces, Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly and Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly. In this dialogue, which was attended by parliamentary delegations, a joint national action plan was set up to achieve the goals of sustainable development in the country.
He said that Pakistan was badly affected by the recent devastating floods and people’s houses and standing crops were destroyed by this flood. Is facing various difficulties due to change. He said that the world has to move forward for the rehabilitation of the families affected by the recent devastating floods and cooperate with Pakistan in this difficult situation.
Alicia Claes, Chairperson of the Belgium-Pakistan Parliamentary Friendship Group in the Belgian Parliament, congratulated Ms. Romina Khurshid Alam for organizing a successful two-day national dialogue on SDGs. Expressing regret over the losses, he assured all kinds of cooperation from the Belgian government
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