2015/10/10
Baghdad
The Ministry of Planning, on Saturday, its commitment to the terms of the sustainable agenda for 2015 which was ratified by the United Nations, and promised an ambitious program of action for achieving sustainable development goals, and called upon to support statistical work, she hoped the completion of the general census of the population within five years.
He said Planning Minister Salman Jumaili during his speech delivered on his behalf by the President of the Central Bureau of Statistics Zia Awad Kazem on the occasion of World Statistics Day under the slogan (the best data for a better life), which was held at the Babylon Hotel and attended (range Press), that "the ministry is celebrating World Statistics Day with the launch of sustainable agenda for 2015, which was recently approved in the meetings of the General Assembly of the United Nations. "
He added Jumaili, that "Iraq was among the countries that have pledged commitment to implement what came in the agenda items and achieve the desired goals in 2030," noting that "the agenda represents an ambitious program of action to achieve sustainable development goals 17 goals of their number."
He pointed Jumaili, that "the objectives of the agenda are distributed between the eradication of poverty and improve the individual's life to health, education and preservation of the environment and other concerns in the field of human rights, gender and haggling between sexual," pointing out that "the agenda represents more than 300 statistical indicator to measure to make sure progress on steps to be achieved in the goals and objectives. "
He called Jumaili, to "support statistical work and find ways to accomplish multiple tasks through the joint coordination with all data producers in accordance with the agreed process plans."
For his part, head of the Central Bureau of Statistics Zia Awad Kadhem, "The Central Bureau hopes to celebrate five years after the World Statistics Day a wedding statistical work which the census long-awaited and found it hard we implemented despite all previous attempts sincere and serious, which wanted to build the foundation stone for development The real draw for the country's new strategy according to the advancement of modern data and statistics. "
Kadhim said, "Today we celebrate the passage of 76 years of statistical work after the work began a small Division in 1939 then evolved into a higher level within the work of the Central Bureau of Statistics."
The 193 member state of the United Nations General Assembly adopted in the month of September officially sustainable development to the year 2030 agenda, a set of global objectives bold new, and that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, it praised the comprehensive and integrated manufacturing as a vision for a better world.
The 20 of October of each year World Day of Statistics and celebrated by the United Nations annually.
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