KINGSTON, Jamaica — Finance and Planning Minister, Dr Peter Phillips leaves the island today for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where he is scheduled to participate in the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, sponsored by the United Nations. The conference begins on July 13 and is scheduled to end on July 16.

The conference is expected to arrive at an agreement in the Addis Ababa Accord, on a range of modalities for financing sustainable development, both domestic and international.

It is also expected to address issues relating to the new sustainable development goals to be agreed on in September 2015. The recent multilateral efforts to promote international development cooperation, the inter-relationship of all sources of development financing, the synergies between financing objectives across the different dimensions of sustainable development, as well as the need to support the United Nations development agenda beyond 2015 are issues on the agenda for inclusion in the final Accord.

The minister and his delegation are expected to return to Jamaica on Saturday, July 18.