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To give you an example, let us discuss about climate change. As we race to be the top economies,
we often overlook the fact that massive development and high economic growth often depleting
our natural resources. We need ways to balance the economic growth while at the same time
sustainably manage the environment.

I am grateful that the world has work together to counter and adapt with the climate change. In
an effort to do so, Parliament of Eurasian Countries should also work together to garner political
support in scaling up actions to combat the adverse impact of climate change. Indonesia has
ratified the Paris Agreement and commit to enhance efforts through climate change related
legislation, budget allocation for climate actions and Nationally Determined Contributions
(NDC) monitoring. The Indonesian House urges countries who have not done so to ratify
the Paris Agreement and set a proper balance to integrate the three pillars of sustainable
development into SDGs national policies.

SDGs are a world pledge with national and sub-national actions to implement them. Yet, we
realize that despite many countries differ in their challenges, we have the same goal to set
actions for our people, planet, and prosperity. It is therefore, international cooperation among
countries are inevitable as a means to garner more support for the SDGs.

Indonesia emphasizes the need to engage more parliaments in the work of SDGs. By generating
interparliamentary cooperation, we will have more supports, inspiration, lesson-learned and
stories to tell, about the successful parliamentary work on SDGs.

In this connection, I wish to refer to the outcome document of the 2 World Parliamentary
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Forum on Sustainable Development (WPSD)—an interparliamentary platform focusing solely
on sustainable development issues—held in Bali, last September: The Bali Commitments, which
outlined the specific roles parliament could take in advancing the SDGs implementation. To
conclude, I wish through this meeting we can pave our way to work towards Bali Commitments
and call upon Eurasian Parliaments to fully embrace a proper balance between the three pillars
of sustainable development.

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