Holy See evaluates 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development
(Vatican Radio) A letter from
the Holy See regarding the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development has been published on the website of the UN General Assembly.
The letter, dated 25
September 2016 and signed by Archbishop Bernadito Auza, Permanent Observer of
the Holy See to the UN, evaluates the Agenda and makes some
considerations regarding the Agenda in light of Pope Francis’ address to the
United Nations when he travelled to New York in September 2015 and of other
principles.
You can find the full text of
Holy See’s letter to the UN General Assembly here.
Below, is the synopsis of
the letter provided by the United Nations:
On October 5, The United
Nations General Assembly published on its website a September 25, 2016 letter
from the Holy See regarding the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development on the
first anniversary of the adoption of the 2030 Agenda. The UN published it as an
annex to Agenda Items 13 and 117 of the 71st Session of the General Assembly.
In the Letter, the Holy
See wished to consider certain general principles in evaluating the 2030 Agenda
and in interpreting and implementing it at the national and international
levels. It laid out the key points of Pope Francis’ 25 September 2015 Address
to the United Nations and considered the 2030 Agenda in light of those and
other principles.
The general principles
highlighted in the Holy See’s letter were the need to understand integral human
development, to recognize the poor as dignified agents of their own destiny, to
provide both spiritual and material means, to respect the principle of justice,
to protect the right to education in light of the transcendent destiny of the
human person, to respect the rule of law, to seek peaceful resolutions of
disputes, to serve other and respect the common good, and to build the
foundation of a universal fraternity.
In the application of
those principles to the 2030 Agenda, the Holy See stated that it “agree with
most of the goals and targets enumerated in the Agenda,” but wished to make
“clarifications and reservations on some of the concepts used,” taking into
consideration the reservations it entered into the record on Targets 3.7 and
5.6 and about Paragraph 26.
It made clarifications
about the purpose of the Agenda, the centrality of the human person, the
concept of human dignity, the promotion of women and men, girls and boys,
health, the rights and duties of the family and of parents, and integral human
development.
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