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Published on November 15, 2013
The Prime Minister addressed the Executive Session of the CHOGM, 2013 as the first speaker on the theme "Growth with Equity: Inclusive Development" at the Sirimavo Bandaranaike Memorial Exhibition Center here. For inclusive development of a nation, she said, peace is vital and it is only achievable with the prevalence of justice. "Justice, however, prevails when there is genuine democracy and inclusive empowerment of all people, irrespective of race, religion, caste or creed, and particularly of the voiceless people," she said.
Sheikh Hasina called for establishing a facilitator mechanism at political level to address the challenges of millennium development goals (MDGs) and implement any successor framework of the MDGs. In this context, she mentioned her peace model -- "Peoples' Empowerment and Development" -- adopted by the 66th session of the UNGA, which contains six mutually reinforcing peace multipliers -- eradication of poverty and hunger; reduction of inequality; mitigation of deprivation, inclusion of excluded people; acceleration of human development and elimination of terrorism. "I feel that this model can also substantially contribute to any discourse of Commonwealth on the concept of inclusive development," she said.
The Prime Minister thanked the Australian government for its sound leadership in Commonwealth during the last two years. She also expressed deep appreciation to the Commonwealth secretary general for his diligent efforts in promoting democracy and development across the Commonwealth.
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