KATHMANDU: Minister for Health and Population, Upendra Yadav, informed the international community that Nepal adopts right-based approach while dealing with the issues of population and development.
“Nepal is committed towards a rights-based, inclusive, innovative, and sustainable approach to population and development,” he said while addressing the fifty-seventh session of the Commission on Population and Development in New York.
He underlined the full implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) is critical to attaining the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, according to a press statement issued by the Permanent Mission of Nepal to the UN.
He also shared that Nepal had given utmost priority and importance to the implementation and attainment of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development since its adoption in 1994.
Minister Yadav informed the international audiences across various policies, plans, and programmes Nepal has been enforcing to enhance the quality of life of every citizen in a bid to create a just, inclusive, and equitable society.
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