President of 78th UNGA addresses joint sitting of parliament.

President of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, H.E. Dennis Francis addressed a joint sitting of parliament yesterday. The President of the UNGA is visiting Namibia as part of his outreach activities to various UN member countries, focusing on the need to accelerate the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).His visit also comes ahead of the recent appointment of Namibia and Germany as co-hosts of the Summit of the Future (SOTF)at the UN in September this year. Francis stressed the importance of multilateralism and the need to urgently implement the SDGs by 2030. “The summit of the future is part of a continuum of efforts to deliver faster and smarter on the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and Paris agreement on climate change”, noted the President.