New York, 8 June 2017. At the ECOSOC’s Coordination and Management Meeting, and after conveying appreciation and honor to represent the Caribbean region, together with Jamaica, as part of the Interagency Working Group on Sustainable Development Indicators, Cuba underscored that the Framework of 230 Global Indicators, recently adopted, defines a significant starting point towards the implementation and periodical follow-up of the 2030 Agenda, its SDOs and goals.
In this scenario, the Cuban delegate Biana Leyva Regueira, expressed viewpoints on the priority that should be offered to the certainly necessary refinement of the referred indicators, laying stress on ‘harmful use of alcohol’, within the “Noncommunicable Diseases Global Monitoring Framework”.
She highlighted that the approach on the issue, as recognized by WHO, shall not focus on consumption per se, but on harmful consumption. In that sense, she valued the primacy of WHO and its governing organs in the setting up of international health norms, standards and objectives, to favor the adoption by Member States of appropriate and holistic policies in facing the harmful consumption of alcohol.
The Cuban delegate made clear that limitations to the Global Indicators Framework may jeopardize the correct implementation of the ambitious commitments outlined in the 2030 Agenda. While communicating Cuba´s support in such process, she urged to guarantee the accurate outline of such reality, in search for a more just and equitable international order for our peoples.
Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations