Mongolia at 49th session of Commission on Population and Development

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A head of the Monitoring and Internal Audit Department of the Ministry of Health and Sport S.Togsdelger has addressed a plenary meeting of the 49th session of the Commission on Population and Development. The measure kicked off this April 11 in New York of USA under a theme “Strengthening the demographic evidence base for the post-2015 development agenda”. Ms Togsdelger said the session of the Commission on Population and Development and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) played a vital role in fortifying a potential to work out and implement a policy on population development, becoming a basic source for designing new goals for sustainable development at a national level. Based on its experience in formulating reports on the MDGs, Mongolia is actively working on fixing national and thematic criteria for sustainable development, Togsdelger went on. A strengthening of the demographic evidence in development policy and statistical potential is very important when implementing the post-2015 development agenda, she stressed. To continue until this April 15, this session is to discuss methods of the Commission on Population and Development as well as agendas for the next session.