The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Ms Hanna Serwaah Tetteh, has bemoaned the huge wave of migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean from Ghana and many other African countries mainly due to the unavailability of jobs for the youth.
�We cannot, therefore, stand and watch our youth die needlessly due to either changes in climate, which is affecting their ability to earn livelihoods from agriculture and the unnecessary political conflicts that have plagued member countries,� she stressed.
At a press briefing in Accra on Ghana�s participation in the 70th Session of UN General Assembly, she said all over the world and in our own region, the threat of terrorism and its challenges continue to swell, and there is the need to think through more effective ways of tackling it.
These challenges, she said, would be addressed by the President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, at the 70th Session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, which is scheduled to be held at the UN Headquarters in New York from September 24 to October 2, 2015.
At the UN General Assembly, the President, she said, will take the opportunity to bring these points home and join world leaders in their deliberations on identifying strategies and solutions to address the threats posed by the state of affairs in which our world finds itself today.
Ms Tetteh stated that Ghana has also taken steps to incorporate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into Ghana�s 40-year Development Plan, which is currently being formulated by the National Development Planning Committee (NDPC).
Like the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Ghana will ensure it is collectively developed to engender universal ownership and acceptability and would also promote its wider dissemination and application and implementation at national, regional and community levels, and establish internal mechanisms to monitor performance and reporting.
Ghana will organise a science, technology and innovation conference aimed at bringing together Ghanaian experts in the field of technology, science and industry to build synergies for the eventual transfer of their expertise to support sustainable, industrial and technological development in Ghana.
She disclosed it will also hold a number of bilateral meetings and participate in other side events.
The theme for the general debate for the 70th session of the General Assembly is �The United Nations at 70, The Road Ahead or Peace, Security and Human Rights.�
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