The Prince of Orange, along with Honorary President Crown Prince Naruhito, attended the tenth meeting of the United Nations Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation in Japan today. As chairman of the UNSGAB, the Dutch prince presented the opening remarks and said: “We have taken big strides in raising public awareness about sanitation. Now we must find ways to ensure that this increases access to safe sanitation at grassroots level. For we have only a few years to halve the number of people without access to safe sanitation, something we, the people of the United Nations, have committed ourselves to achieving.”Tomorrow afternoon, Prince Willem-Alexander will meet with African leaders and ministers to prepare for the upcoming TICAD IV (Tokyo International Conference on African Development), the G-8 and the African Union Summit in an effort to “help prioritize the critical issues for water and sanitation.”
The entire opening remarks by the Prince of Orange at the tenth meeting of the United Nations Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation in Tokyo, Japan can be read here.
Crown Prince Naruhito's entire address at the opening cermony of the tenth Meeting of the United Nations Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation in Tokyo, Japan can be read here.
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