44. 该集团成员国的部长们最近通过了一项宣言，他们在宣言中强调需要共同努力，尽可能保护迄今已经取得的发展成果，并重建得更好。他们的国家将继续敦促联合国系统解决中等收入国家的关切和具体挑战；这些国家有 100 多个，占世界人口的大部分和贫困人口的三分之二，占全球国内生产总值的三分之一以上及世界进出口总额的四分之一。中等收入国家是增长的引擎。如果他们无法实现可持续发展目标，将意味着全球无法实施《2030 年议程》。
44. Ministers from member countries of the Group had recently adopted a declaration in which they had underlined the need to work together to protect, as much as possible, the development gains achieved thus far and to build back better. Their countries would continue to urge the United Nations system to address the concerns and specific challenges of middle-income countries, of which there were more than 100, accounting for the majority of the world’s population and two thirds of its poor, more than a third of global GDP and a quarter of the world’s exports and imports. Middle-income countries were engines of growth. Their inability to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals would mean global failure to implement the 2030 Agenda.