Albares offers members and senators cooperation and consensus ahead of International Conference on Financing for Development

The Minister for Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, met with the members of the Bureau and spokespersons of the political groups of the Congressional and Senate International Development Cooperation Committees to offer them cooperation and consensus for the United Nations International Conference on Financing for Development.

Albares, who held this meeting with members and senators in the Palace of Santa Cruz and in which he advanced the importance of the event that Seville will host between 30 June and 3 July, stressed that this Conference aims to approve a new paradigm of financing for development that contributes to enable the effective implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs.

In February 2024, the UN membership chose Spain to host the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4). After two years of work at different levels with Member States and the Secretariat, the election of Spain confirms the perception of our country as a balanced interlocutor and an actor capable of forging consensus.

Albares said that this conference represents a great opportunity for the international community to push for the mobilisation of all policies and resources to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and the acceleration of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda at a global level, and will take place only five years after the finalisation of this Agenda. Developing countries consider this Conference as one of the critical milestones in the development agenda.

The minister emphasised that this will be an opportunity for Spain to consolidate its multilateral profile by setting its position as a major partner of the United Nations, increasing its weight in a priority global agenda.

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