Addressing the 72nd session of the World Health Organisation Regional Committee for Europe in Tel Aviv, Musić Milanović said she was confident such a summit would be a unique opportunity to mobilise support and funds to encourage a bigger engagement, innovative solutions, and make room for new voices and ideas.
She said she was looking forward to being a link of joint efforts for the prevention of obesity in children.
The summit will be held in cooperation with the WHO, where Musić Milanović is a member of the advisory council of the regional director for Europe in the field of innovation for the prevention of chronic non-communicable diseases.
In Israel, she met with WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
In her final address, she said obesity was a complex disease which posed a risk of other chronic non-communicable diseases such as type 2 diabetes, mental health disorders and cardiovascular diseases.
She underlined that even before the pandemic, not one country from WHO Europe had come close to achieving the goal of stopping the rise in child obesity.
That's why, she said, the common goal and commitment to preventing chronic non-communicable diseases, notably obesity in children, must be put on a higher place on the political agenda.