وسلم أيضا بأن المساواة بين الجنسين هي من بين العناصر التي تشكل الأساس للتنمية المستدامة.
This renewed commitment to women's empowerment and gender equality is important because of women's central role in social development, poverty eradication, natural resource management and their, often unrecognized, critical contributions to economic development at all levels.