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In a letter dated 21 February, the Co-Chairs for the UN General Assembly Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals, sent to the UN Permanent Representatives (Ambassadors) a document listing 19 focus areas. The focus areas are listed below.
In their letter the Co-Chairs said that the document did not “constitute a zero draft of the report that the Group has been mandated to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session.” The focus areas are also not exhaustive and do not preclude inclusion of other issues discussed within the context of the thematic clusters but that may not have been captured here. Based on this document, Member States are however asked to begin “the serious business of identifying SDGs and accompanying targets at the ninth session of the Open Working Group in early March.” They will also “at an appropriate time, and in light of discussions in the Group, provide a more concise document”.
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