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BERN – The Swiss-based Cairo+ group of Parliamentarians, set up in 1999 to promote the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), organized an all-party meeting to discuss ongoing plans for ICPD/15, the fifteenth anniversary of the 1994 event.
In a presentation, Leyla Alyanak of the UNFPA Geneva Office highlighted the many events being supported by UNFPA throughout the year and highlighted the links between the ICPD and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
“The Cairo consensus placed individual human beings at the very heart of the development process and made commitments for meeting those needs, so that individuals would have genuine choices for the spacing, timing and number of their children. The anniversary, 15 years on, can serve to create critical links between ICPD and the MDGs, as well as to advance in the establishment of the Reproductive Health target in the 2010 MDG reviews,” she said.
The Kairo+ meeting was organized by the Swiss NGO PLANeS, which acts as the Secretariat for the group.
