23 JULY 2015, NEW YORK
POST-2015 INTERGOVERNMENTAL NEGOTIATIONS
ON THE OUTCOME DOCUMENT
STATEMENT BY FINLAND
ON MEANS OF IMPLEMENTATION AND GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP
DELIVERED BY AMBASSADOR RIITTA RESCH
Mr. Co-facilitator,
Finland aligns its statement with the statement made by the EU. We make these comments in our national capacity.
In addition to ambitious and transformative sustainable development goals and targets, we need strong and credible means of implementation and global partnership between all stakeholders to implement our Agenda. We welcome the Addis Abeba Action Agenda, which is a balanced compromise outcome that includes financial and non-financial means, as well as, an enabling environment at all levels for sustainable development in the spirit of global partnership and solidarity.
We think that the Addis Abeba Action Agenda should be included, as an annex, into our Agenda as an integral part, and it will, together with goal 17 and the MoI targets under individual goals, be fundamental in delivering the 2030 Global Agenda.
As I stated yesterday, we would like to see the goals and targets related to the means of implementation included in the proposal of the Open Working Group, included in this document only once and trust that the best and most natural place for them will be found.
One of the key elements for the implementation of this Agenda will be global partnership among all stakeholders. A brief new paragraph on global partnership could be added in the introductory part of this section. Global partnership should be based on principles of universality, shared responsibility, mutual accountability, consideration of respective capacities, and multi-stakeholder approach. Global partnership should be based and promote human rights, equality, non-discrimination, democratic institutions, good governance, rule of law, inclusiveness, environmental sustainability and respect for planetary boundaries. Women's rights, gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, as well as being ends in themselves, are key means of implementation. Global partnership should reflect the paradigm shift to a transformative and universal agenda.
We also would like to repeat and once more emphasize, what was already said by the EU and some others, that the Addis outcome and the SDGs and targets require an integrated follow up and review, including monitoring and accountability, in order to be effective, coherent and to have a real impact.
Thank you, Mr. Co-facilitator.
