Minister Larue attends 9th Commonwealth Sports Ministers meeting |05 April 2018

Seychelles’ Youth, Sports and Culture Minister Mitcy Larue took part in the 9th Commonwealth Sports Ministers Meeting (CSMM) held on the Gold Coast of Queensland, in Australia on April 3, 2018.

The meeting saw the involvement of delegations from 45 Commonwealth nations and territories.

Other than Minister Larue, Seychelles was represented by sports special advisor Jean Larue and director general for policy affairs and international cooperation Begitta Jeannevol.

The meeting was opened by Commonwealth secretary general, The Rt. Hon Patricia Scotland QC, and was chaired by senator the Hon. Bridget McKenzie, who is the Australian minister for sports.

The ministers’ meeting was conducted in the context of significant international momentum on aligning sport policy to the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this context, the main objective of the meeting was to agree on joint strategies and collective actions to strengthen sports policy coherence to maximise the benefits of investing in sport.  

In the meeting the member ministers reiterated the valuable contribution that sports make to the national development of the respective countries and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, stressing that a well-governed and inclusive sport environment, with strong integrity measures and human rights protections, is essential to maximise impact and also discussed about the need to strengthen measurement and evaluation of the contribution of the sports policy and related investments to national development priorities and the SDGs.

The ministers equally stressed on the value of the Commonwealth’s global leadership in the area of sports and the SDGs’ importance of continued cooperation on the sports and social policy issues.

Minister Larue also visited the 25 Seychellois athletes who are currently in Australia for the Commonwealth Games which started yesterday.