Events

On 26 September 2015, H.E. Mr. János Áder, President of Hungary met with Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. They discussed ways and means to promote Sustainable Development Goals a day after the Heads of States and Governments adopted the 2030 Agenda.

On 25 September at the Sustainable Development Summit in New York Heads of State and Government formally adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, an ambitious and transformative package of 17 interrelated sustainable development goals and 169 targets that aim to end poverty by 2030, while balancing the economic, social and environmental pillars of development. In his statement addressed to the General Assembly, H.E. President János Áder, Head of the delegation of Hungary underlined that the Agenda can only be implemented if Member States also take decisive climate action at the COP21 Conference to be held in Paris in December.

His Holiness, Pope Francis requested Heads of Governments and Heads of States to follow up the agreement on the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda with concrete action, declaring the Agenda “a sign of hope for mankind”. He strongly supported the protection of environment, ending poverty for all, and requested that certain material (lodging, labor, land) and spiritual (religious freedom, civil rights) “minimums” be granted to everybody. He cautioned that besides the goals, targets and indicators, decision-makers should always remember that the agenda is, first and foremost, about people. People of all social groupings have to be included and must become agents of change.

H.E. President János Áder is heading the Hungarian Delegation for the United Nations summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda, which will be held from 25 to 27 September 2015, in New York and convened as a high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly.

On 11 September 2015, Ambassador Katalin Bogyay hosted the opening ceremony of an exhibit entitled “Pharrajimos: Holocaust of the Roma People” at the Permanent Mission of Hungary to the UN. The exhibit was opened by Dr. István Mikola, Minister of State for Security Policy and International Cooperation, Ms. Cristina Gallach, UN Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information and Mr. László Teleki, Member of the Hungarian Parliament.