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Indonesia pushes for downstreaming, Global South rights at UN SDGs summit
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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivers a statement on Sept. 18, 2023, during the opening of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Summit 2023, at the UN headquarters in New York City, the United States.
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ith much of its long-term development plan hindered by international trade laws, the current global order has been labeled “unfit” by Indonesian delegates at the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Summit, who also urged for the end of “discriminatory” trade policies.
These repeated calls from Indonesia came as the country tries to escape from what has been described as the middle-income trap, and amid a bid to enter the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Ahead of the 78th UN General Assembly (UNGA) opening ceremony on Tuesday, global representatives kick-started the week’s flurry of meetings at the SDGs Summit, where they deliberated over the sluggish progress in advancing the global sustainable goals that were meant to be achieved by 2030.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for a "global rescue plan" on the 17 SDG targets at the summit, as he acknowledged that only about 15 percent were on track to be met and that metrics on some were backtracking.
