The global leadership meeting on population ended in Dhaka on Wednesday with a call on the countries to address and integrate population dynamics into the post-2015 development agenda when the current MDGs will expire.
Ministers and representatives of the 51 countries adopted a unanimous ‘Dhaka Declaration’ recognising that people are “at the centre of sustainable development that improves the lives and livelihoods of both present and future generations”.
Foreign Minister Dipu Moni concluded the two-day meeting calling upon the countries to move forward with the declaration which brought four different population issues – its growth, ageing, migration and urbanisation – into one declaration.
The meeting was a part of the 50 global consultative meetings that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon had earlier planned to hold with some agreed themes including population dynamics.
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