UN: Discussions in Baku laid solid foundation for High-Level Political Forum

Discussions in Baku have laid a solid foundation for the High-Level Political Forum to be held in July.

Report informs that UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said this at the closing ceremony of WUF13 in Baku.

According to her, the ministerial meeting on the New Urban Agenda held in Baku this week sent an important signal of renewed political will.

"As we look ahead, the discussions in Baku lay a solid foundation for the July high-level meeting of the UN General Assembly on the midterm review of the New Urban Agenda. As we leave Baku, we take with us a clear message: the next decade of implementing the New Urban Agenda cannot be like the previous one," the UN deputy secretary-general added.

She noted that "we need more ambition, more financing, more inclusiveness and more action."

"Cities are humanity's oldest collective project. And our task today is to continue this project so that 21st-century cities are open to all, so that every person has a home and no one is left behind. Our generation is not the first to face this task, and it will not be the last. But perhaps we will be the first generation with the knowledge, tools and partnerships needed to fully address it. That is why we must take everything we have learned and created here in Baku," Amina Mohammed said.