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Good Afternoon
The BAPA+40 Conference is taking place at a time when the international community is working very hard to implement the aspirational yet achievable transformative 2030 Agenda. We are hearing that trillions of dollars would be required to achieve the SDGs.
South-South cooperation (SSC) is making a vital contribution to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, as a complement, not a substitute, to North-South cooperation and its importance as aneffectiveformofdevelopmentcooperation has been growing. Itisencouragingtohearthat, in 2017,74 per cent of developing countries provided some form of development cooperation, up from 63 per cent in 2015.
Toharnessthepotentialofthe South-South Cooperation and restrategizeit, weneedto step up themeansofimplementationas outlined in the 2030 Agenda and I wouldliketoflag a fewpoints:
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