UN VP: we never achieved any success

Vice president of the United Nations (UN) Ken Kanda said on the High-Level Forum on South-South Cooperation for Sustainable Development that South-South cooperation (SSC) has yet achieved any concrete result.

Kanda, who is also the permanent representative of Ghana to the UN, said at the Forum in Hong Kong that albeit SSC have been working closer together in recent years, they "never achieved any success". Countries in the Global South should aim for tangible reasons.

To do so, Kanda said, the countries should tackle one problem at a time. The first and foremost being water pollution in African countries.

""We should put that on the agenda for the next year or two," said Kanda.

"We can make promising promotion on tourism, and many other sectors, why not water?" he said.

Kanda said it would be unimaginable to see countries with soaring GDP figures drinking brown waters from the wells.

"We should hold a conference and hold a key topic to talk about water purification," he said.