The delegates to participate in the 4th South Asian Speakers' Summit on Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) begin arriving in Maldives. The summit is jointly organised by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the Parliament of Maldives and will take place in Male’ from September 1-2.
This is the fourth event in a series of speakers' summits for the region on SDGs, the previous three having been hosted by the Jatiya Sangsad of Bangladesh in 2016, the Sansad of India in 2017 and the Parliament of Sri Lanka in 2018. This is the first speakers' summit to be held in Maldives.
The high-level Summit will build on the conclusions of the previous summits and will allow speakers of parliaments to continue to develop dialogue and parliamentary cooperation on achieving the SDGs. Given their legislative, oversight, representative and budgetary functions, parliaments play a key role in ensuring a sustainable future for current and future generations.
The Summit is intended for speakers of the parliaments from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Maldives.