Permanent
Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Rajab Gamah
addresses reporters in a press conference about the UN week in Dar es
Salaam and the government strong commitment towards delivering as one.
Left is UN Resident Coordinator Dr. Alberic Kacou.
UN
Resident Coordinator Dr. Alberic Kacou speaks to reporters in a news
conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs headquarters about the UN
week in Tanzania while he confers the 68th UN Anniversary.
Some of the reporters who attended the press conference today in Dar es Salaam.
Dr.Alberic Kacou Interviewed by a BBC reporter.
.Kacou give thump up to the Government on peacekeeping process
Theme: The Future We Want
By Moblog Team
The
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the United Nations in Tanzania jointly
organized a press conference to announce the beginning of UN week, to
highlight key development issues, successes and challenges in the
country.
The UN week this year is being celebrated on the theme of ‘The Future We Want’
The week
of 17-24 October rejuvenates the long standing collaboration between the
government of Tanzania and the United Nations, re-enforces the roles
and responsibilities of joint partnership and strengthens commitment for
successful implementation of the United Nations Development Assistance
Plan (UNDAP 2011-2015) aligned with the government’s development
priorities for the country.
The
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hon Bernard Membe reaffirmed the
government’s strong commitment towards Delivering as One (DaO) and
emphasizing upon the need to maintain a peaceful enabling environment
for development activities.
“We
pioneered this initiative since 2007 because we believed it would
further strengthen cooperation among our governments, the UN and
development partners,” He stated
He said
that this initiative has addressed Tanzania’s development need in one
roof, delivering responsive results catered for the wellbeing of
Tanzanians from policy support to social services delivery and promotion
of good governance.
Membe
added that Tanzania has incorporated Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
in its national development framework, namely the MKUKUTA and MKUZA
(phase 1and 11 on both) in tandem within the Tanzania Development Vision
2025 and Zanzibar Vision 2020.
He further
said that the development plans are envisaged towards having Tanzania
graduate from ‘least developed country’ to a middle-income country’ with
high level of both human development and an economic growth rate of at
least 8 percent per annum.
“The UN
has been encouraging an unprecedented global conversation on the type of
world that people want beyond 2015, through 11 thematic public
consultations and surveys on the themes around inequalities, health,
education, growth and employment,” says Dr. Alberic Kacou UN Resident
Coordinator
He said
that the global conversation initiated by the UN engaged more than 1.3
million people in above 180 UN members states since August 2012.
Dr. Kacou
added that the objective of the UN week is to strengthening the
partnership between the UN and the government Tanzania including the
people while to share the philosophy of the two parties to ensure they
champion in the same goal the future we want.
He said
that the national consultations is to captured what is basically the
matter of human life such as inequalities, health, education, growth and
employment which Tanzania is among the countries that signed the
thematic public consultations to foster public debate for national
development.
Kacou also
thanks the government of Tanzania for their strong commitment in
peacekeeping process in Africa by providing troops in Darful, Lebanon
and Congo to ensure that there is peace and stability in the continent.
Several activities are schedule to take place between 17-24 October 2013 on the theme ‘The Future We Want’:
-Public Debate at the University of Dar es Salaam on 22nd, October 2013
-UN Exhibition open for the general public at Karimjee grounds on 24th October, 2013
-Flag Raising Ceremony hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 24th October, 2013
-Outreach activities jointly with Youth of the United Nations Association (YUNA) in the Mainland and Zanzibar (17-24 October).
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