PRESS BRIEFING BY MONICA GRAYLEY,?SPOKESPERSON FOR GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT MAR?A FERNANDA ESPINOSA

United Nations Headquarters, New York

22 October 2018

[As delivered]

Good afternoon, everyone!

Here we are to start a new week.

PGA SPEAKS AT GLOBAL LEADERS INVESTMENT SUMMIT

President María Fernanda Espinosa started her official trip to Geneva today at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (蘑菇视频CTAD) 2018 World Investment Forum, which has its 10th anniversary this year. At the event, “Global Leaders Investment Summit”, Ms. Espinosa stressed the importance of cooperation in order to find common, multilateral solutions to global challenges.

The overall theme this year is: Investing in Sustainable Development.

The PGA emphasized the important role of the private sector in delivering Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development; the need to empower women and youth, which is key to economic development and ensuring peace and security; and the importance of investments in areas that advance environmental protection and climate action. The President told world leaders that: “we have a moral obligation to protect and advance the rights of billions of people around the world. As it is, approximately 10 per cent of the world’s population continue to live on less than one dollar and ninety cents ($1.90) per day.” For her: this is simply unacceptable. Ms. Espinosa stressed that it will take 5 to 7 trillion US Dollars per year, and 600 million new jobs would be created by 2030, to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

PGA’s AGENDA

On the PGA’s agenda for today: Ms. Espinosa attended the Ceremony on the Investment Promotion Awards, which took place at the Palais des Nations. Tomorrow she will grant a press conference to correspondents in Geneva, which will be webcast live at 3 p.m. Geneva time.

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