Madam Chair
We would like to have seven key integrative factors to be included in the CSD 17 to
properly deal with the cross-cutting issues from policy to action, as defined as below:
1. harmonizing the institutionalization of the already determined targets of the CSD,
inclusive of rural development, land, agriculture, dessertification and drought;
2. ensuring widespread access to clean water, and enhancing sanitation for all, as well as
the education programs as a road map to sustainable development;
3. prioritizing 'Green Revolution' as a vital integrating part of the cross-cutting;
4. Accelerating rural development from investments in infrastructure, adaptive practices
of agriculture and effective management of water and land, especially sound irrigation
systems and water storage/reserviors significantly serving as a mechanism to mitigate the
impacts of climate change and adapt to the climate change;
5. as a precautious policy measure, there is a strong need to manage risks, particularily
arising from flood, contaminated water and poor food quality, which extremely exposes
the less developed countries and the developing countries to high levels of vulnerability
in lifelihoods and to the further empoverishment of the countries;
6. Having the necessity to build up multilateral financial, economic and political
cooperation and coordination to accomplish the goals of the CSD 17;
7. finally creating more job opportunities in the rural areas and the countryside so as to
bridge a gap of the double standard within the nation, from region to region and in the
globe. Such an action, thus, does stop displacement and massive migration movements
from the periphery to the core, which poses a stumbling block to sustainable
development.
Thank you. Madam Chair
