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Author : Helen Clark
Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme
This Golden Collection speech was delivered in Moscow on June
10, 2015.
IN THE COMING MONTHS in New York, United
Nations member states are expected to agree on a new
development agenda which will replace that of the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It is shap-
ing up to be an ambitious and transformational devel-
opment agenda, which would be universal in nature,
cover all three dimensions of sustainable develop-
ment, and aim to address the many interlinked challenges our world is facing. The agenda is rel-
evant to countries at all stages of development.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda will be reinforced by the outcomes of other
major global development-related processes this year.
Without doubt, there has been tremendous development progress in the time span covered by
the MDGs and their targets.
Russia's development cooperation has contributed to this progress, not least to its contributions
in the areas of health, education and food security.
The time to act is now. Exclusion is fueling the use of sectarianism and violence. The burden of
complex humanitarian emergencies occasioned by conflict or by natural disasters is weighing
heavily on peoples on the frontlines of these events, and on international relief budgets.
THE NEW DEVELOPMENT AGENDA will remain mere words on paper unless it can be
implemented. A strong package on "means of implementation" will be critical. Capacities need
to be strengthened. Renewed global partnerships for development are needed. And, while money
isn't everything, access to finance is vital.
GROWING SUPPORT from major emerging economies and donors like Russia for develop-
ment cooperation will be of significant assistance in achieving the new Sustainable Development
Goals and targets. The expansion of sources of support for developing countries is good for
development.
Russia has a very wide range of knowledge and expertise from which its partners in the CIS and
beyond already benefit. For example, earlier this year, in the process of Kyrgyzstan's accession
to the Customs Union, Russia's State Customs Committee and other relevant agencies provided
invaluable capacity-building support and expertise on customs regulation and procedures to their
Электронное приложение к журналу «Международная жизнь»
International Affairs: Summary№5, 2015
The New Global Development Agenda