Budapest Water Summit issues statement on sustainable development
BUDAPEST, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- The Budapest Water Summit ended on Friday after participants adopted a statement calling for the establishment of a set of water-specific sustainable development goals to be implemented after 2015.
According to the statement, sustainable development required guaranteed water safety.
The signatories pledged that they would make clean drinking water and proper sanitation facilities to treat water available to all, and would design a comprehensive water management policy allowing trans-border cooperation, a sustainable water supply, food safety, energy security, and environmental protections.
They also pledged to reduce water contamination by boosting treatment and recycling. On another topic, they pledged to seek new methods of managing water-related disasters.
Delivering the closing address to the conference, Hungarian Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi called for water to become a source of cooperation, not conflict. He underlined that the United Nations post-2015 development goals needed to include one that is specific to water.
Martonyi stressed that it was high time to pay increased attention to the issue of the security of water supplies. No country can prevent water-related disasters on their own, he said.
About 1,300 participants from over one hundred countries attended the four-day summit.
The summit was held under the auspices of the Hungarian government, the UN and the World Water Council. It sought consensus on water and sanitation policy goals with the aim of making concrete recommendations for sustainable development goals (SDG) to the next UN General Assembly.
布达佩斯水峰会闭幕
新华网布达佩斯10月11日电(记者杨永前)为期4天的布达佩斯水峰会在通过一项声明后于11日在匈牙利首都布达佩斯闭幕。
声明说，可持续发展离不开水资源的安全，迎接水资源挑战需要新的方法，必须对水资源加强管理。声明呼吁将水和卫生列入2015年后的可持续发展目标之中，以便使每个人都能得到可持续的、安全的饮用水和卫生设备及健康服务。
声明指出，要减少污染，收集和处理废水并最大限度地对其再利用。声明还敦促建立政府间合作机制，解决水资源问题。
匈牙利外长毛尔托尼在闭幕式上讲话说，水资源应该成为合作的源泉，而不是冲突的源泉，现在应该把注意力集中在水供应安全问题上，在新的发展日程上水资源管理应该占据其应有的位置。他在谈到与水有关的灾难时说，任何一个国家都不可能单独避免这样的灾难，只有通过合作才有可能避免。
这次水峰会由匈牙利政府、联合国和世界水资源委员会共同主办。会议的主要目的是总结2012年联合国可持续发展大会以来水资源工作的成果，并就2015年后的可持续发展目标向联合国大会提出具体建议。来自100多个国家的1300名代表参加这次峰会。
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