St. Kitts and Nevis House Speaker attends UN Parliamentary Hearing on Water
Black Immigrant Daily News
The Speaker of the National Assembly, Lanein Blanchette, headed the delegation of St. Kitts and Nevis to the Parliamentary Hearing at the United Nations hosted by the President of the 77th UN General Assembly and the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
The two-day meeting is convened under the theme “Water for People and the Planet: Stop the Waste, Change the Game, Invest in the Future” and brings together Parliamentarians from around the world in a lively debate on the looming inter-continental water crisis in order to renew a sense of purpose and solidarity to address these challenges and create modalities for crisis management and transformation. Some of the topics that will be explored include:
Sustainable Development Goal 6 as a linchpin of Sustainable Development;
Access to safe water and sanitation as a human right;
Climate Change and Water Scarcity: Building Resilience to avoid the worst;
Financing infrastructure for sanitation and water services: The trillion-dollar challenge;
Towards a more inclusive water policy: Leaving no one behind.
The Parliamentary Hearing is a major event preparatory to the upcoming United Nations Water Conference that will be held at the United Nations Headquarters on 22nd -24th March 2023.
“The government of St. Kitts and Nevis through its parliamentary and diplomatic representatives intends to do its utmost to ensure that its multilateral engagements will lead to concrete results through concrete actions and plans on the ground. Nobody can prosper until we all prosper; nobody can lead a healthy life until the entire environment and the people around us are healthy too,” Ambassador Dockery concluded.
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