Romania's President addresses the UN

The United Nations Organisation is the main forum of debate in the world. Gathered at the UN headquarters in New York, to attend the 70th UN General Assembly, leaders from all over the world delivered speeches and made commitments.

After the adoption of the 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development, Romania will revise its "National Sustainable Development Strategy", president Iohannis underlined, and will integrate the 17 goals and 169 targets agreed upon at the New York Summit.

The 2030 agenda is meant to eradicate poverty under all its forms and to assure sustainable development.

What will Romania lay emphasis on? Addressing the heads of state and government attending the UN summit, Klaus Iohannis said Romania's strategy lays emphasis on granting greater support to people with disabilities, youth and women, which should be better included in development policies.

Decent employment opportunities are necessary in the effort to eradicate poverty and social cohesion policies should be pursued in order to prevent and avoid social exclusion, the Romanian president also said.

Poverty, the lack of hope, despair and social exclusion should be contained because they are at the core of all conflicts, the seed of violence and extremism, Klaus Iohannis went on to say.

That is why, each nation has the moral obligation to save and support people.

The president gave a recent example, referring to the hundreds of thousands of people who have fled war in the past few months, searching for a better life, trying to cross into Europe, more often than not risking their lives.

This growing inflow of migrants from the Middle East and Africa has prompted the European countries to make huge efforts to prevent a wide scale humanitarian disaster.

We are facing a complex crisis, with significant humanitarian aspects, a crisis of border protection, a crisis of integration and a financial crisis, the Romanian president said.

If we don't find the best means to solve each of these crises, each wave of migration will exceed the previous one, Klaus Iohannis underlined.

Also at the UN headquarters, Romania's president stood for promoting women's rights, a prerequisite for social justice, development and peace.

Klaus Iohannis also said he was personally committed, as part of the "Impact 30" strategy, to launching a new integrated system meant to monitor, report and prevent all forms of violence, to create a new profession, that of expert on gender equality, as well as to develop and implement programs aimed at convincing girls and boys to get involved in the country's political, social and economic life, in order to create a new generation of leaders.

Klaus Iohannis gave assurances that Romania supports gender equality, will protect and promote all women's rights and will implement the international legal instruments in the field.