In implementing the sustainable development goals which is the theme: United in action to rescue and achieve the sustainable development goals for, with and by persons with disabilities to mark the 2023 International Day of Persons with Disabilities, it is necessary to uphold a policy on leaving no one behind for the rights of the persons with disabilities, said Vice-Senior General Soe Win.
At the ceremony to mark the 2023 International Day of Persons with Disabilities held at the Myanmar International Convention Centre-II in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday morning, Chairman of the National Committee for the Rights of the Persons with Disabilities Vice-Chairman of the State Administration Council Deputy Prime Minister Vice-Senior General Soe Win delivered a speech on the rights of the persons with disabilities.
Speaking on the occasion, the Vice-Senior General noted that the UN General Assembly adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 with the aim of overcoming challenges in social, economic and environmental affairs across the world, adding that of them, goals 1, 4, 8, 10, 11 and 17 are concerning with the affairs of those with disabilities.
He gave detail instructions for implementing these goals in Myanmar. He underlined that Myanmar signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on 7 December 2011, and the country enacted the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Law in 2015 and the rules in 2017.
Moreover, he continued that the National Committee for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was formed in 2017, and it is implementing the five-year strategic plan 2022-27 for the rights of persons with disabilities in accord with the Myanmar’s sustainable development plan and ASEAN Strategic Action Plan 2015.
The five-year strategic plan comprises all sectors such as health, education, jobs and employments, social protection, natural disasters and other emergency state, and accessible utilization for the persons with disabilities and the government will implement the action plans of five-year strategic plan, he added.
In reviewing each chapters of the strategic plan, it is connected with the Sustainable Development Goals. So, implementing the five-year strategic plan is equal to realization of the Sustainable Development Goals, he explained.
Vice Chair-1 of the national committee Union Minister Dr Soe Win clarified implementation of the rights of persons with disabilities.
The video message and the video clip to mark the 2023 International Day of Persons with Disabilities sent by the UN Secretary General was shown.
Chairman of the Myanmar Federation of Persons with Disabilities U Thein Han spoke words of thanks.
The Vice-Senior General presented prizes to winners in the open article contest to mark the international day. Union Ministers General Mya Tun Oo, Admiral Tin Aung San and Dr Soe Win also presented prizes to winners in the commemorative occasions.
The Vice-Senior General and party viewed round books, handiworks and documentary photos related to the persons with disabilities displayed at the ceremony.
Myanmar has been marking the 2023 International Day of Persons with Disabilities since 1994 for ensuring qualification improvement of the persons with disabilities in Myanmar society, implementing the equal rights of those persons and recognizing the prestige and capability of the persons with disabilities.
The ceremony was also attended by SAC members, senior military officers, the chairman of Nay Pyi Taw Council, deputy ministers, representatives of international organizations, officials from the federation and guests. — MNA/TTA
