The High-level Political Forum, United Nations central platform for follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals, met from July 9-18 at the UN Headquarters in New York. The HLPF 2018 ministerial meeting was convened from July 16-18.
Apart from covering the ministerial meeting, INPS-IDN DG and Editor-in-Chief Ramesh Jaura met with some of the current and former senior officials of the world body, UN and G77 experts, New York-based UN correspondents and some of our partners.
Highlights of the journalistic coverage were among others interviews with Albania’s Deputy Prime Minister Senida Mesi and Brian Williams, the UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Tirana.
Albania was among 47 countries that carried out Voluntary National Reviews during the ministerial meetings.
Read our special coverage during and in the week after the HLPF 2018:
Governments, Partners Asked To Provide Funds, Incentives For Sustainable Development Targets
Palestinian Peoples’ Fundamental Rights Under Assault, Concern Over Lurking Dangers
UN Conference Warns Of Huge Backlogs Before Achieving Global Development Goals
291 Million Youth Live With No Electricity, No Computers, No Printers – UN Laments
For Albania EU Accession and Agenda 2030 Go Hand in Hand
Climate Change Threatens Bhutan’s Development Gains
Climate Change Is Driving Up Forced Displacement By Disasters
Asia-Pacific May Achieve Only One Out Of 17 Goals By 2030
Global Compact on Migration Agreed Despite Differences