NEW YORK, 21 April, 2021 (TON): On Tuesday, the president of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), Volkan Bozkir, pledged to take efforts making progress on the "Road to Kunming," reaffirming his strong support for boosting biodiversity.

He said, "We must continue to make progress on the 'Road to Kunming' and the goal of a 2020 Framework on Biodiversity."

He made remarks while addressing to the high-level event of Raising Ambition for Nature, organized by the Group of Like-Minded Mega-diverse Countries, a group of countries that harbor the majority of Earth's species.

 Member states clearly expressed support for this in September 2020 at the UN's first Biodiversity Summit and through the Leader's Pledge that was released concurrently. This call has only been emphasized in the period since. We must continue to push for action and utilize the upcoming COP-level summits on climate; biodiversity; and desertification, land degradation and drought to underscore the importance of this issue," said the UNGA president.

"All these areas are interconnected, and we cannot miss the opportunity to tie them together," he added.

However, a call for the efforts to utilize the opportunity presented by the pandemic and the largest socio-economic recovery the world has ever undertaken to strengthen the mankind and nature relationship was made.