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Leaders and experts have called for localization of the New Urban Agenda, a crucial agreement for sustainable urban development endorsed by the United Nations, in addressing the urban development challenges as well as achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs. The leaders, who spoke at the 12th World Urban Forum, or WUF, that opened in Egypt's capital Cairo on Monday, said localizing the SDGs, promoting partnerships and coalitions as well as catalyzing actions will help in realizing development targets. ▲ Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi (right) and Anaclaudia Rossbach, the executive director of UN-Habitat, speak during the opening ceremony of the 12th World Urban Forum, in Cairo, Egypt, on Monday. Sayed Hassan/Getty Images The New Urban Agenda, endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly in December 2016, provides the road map for sustainable urban development in cities globally. Antonio Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general, said re
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