Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the two-day ‘Global Leadership Meeting for Population Dynamics’ meeting where representatives of 51 countries including ministers will attend.
Briefing journalists on the eve of the meeting Foreign Minister Dipu Moni on Monday said it would be a part of the 50 global consultative meetings that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon had earlier planned to hold with nine agreed themes.
“Population Dynamics is one of these agreed themes,” she said.
She added that the conference would have ‘a deeper look’ on issues that can be included in the post-2015 development agenda.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted in 2000 will expire in 2015.
It was agreed at the Rio+20 meeting in June last year that a new set of goals under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the next cycle will begin after 2015.
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