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Parliamentarians as the Key

of SDGs Success

It is an honor for me to welcome you all, fellow Parliamentarians, to be here in Nusa Dua today.
Thank you for taking your time to attend this Partner Session, to discuss about “Implementing
Parliamentary Engagement on SDGs.”

On behalf of the Global Organization of Parliamentarians against Corruption (GOPAC), allow
me to extend my gratitude to the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD), United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), and United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC); who work together with us for this special
session. I hope that our discussion could be a momentum for Parliamentarians to gather,
evaluate, and encourage their role in supporting the SDGs.

Allow me to convey the issue of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and highlighting
the reason of why Parliamentarians hold a pivotal role in ensuring successful achievement of
that global development agenda. As we are all aware, SDGs — a wide-ranging roadmap to
sustainability covering 17 goals and 169 targets — is ground breaking in its vision for a more
inclusive, prosperous, and equal world. They now form the framework of the international
system itself, and will be the metrics by which human progress will be measured.

By committing to the “leave no one behind,” all stakeholders are expected to take part
in implementing SDGs at the local, national, and international levels. This includes
Parliamentarians, which I believe are obviously at the forefront of those imperatives.

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