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Preparatory Committee for the Third UN Conference on LLDCs Convenes
Politics
Ulaanbaatar, June 5, 2024 /MONTSAME/.
The second session of the Preparatory
Committee for the third UN Conference on Landlocked
Developing Countries took place on June 3, 2024, in New York.
V. Enkhbold, the Permanent Representative
of Mongolia to the United Nations, and A. Marshik, the Permanent Representative
of the Federal State of Austria to the United Nations, chaired the meeting.
Speakers of the session included Secretary-General Rabab Fatima, the United
Nations High Representative for Least Developed, Landlocked Developing, and
Small Island Countries, and representatives from 29 landlocked and transit countries.
During the general discussion of the
meeting, the Permanent Representative of Mongolia highlighted two critical
issues reflected in the LDC's action program for the next ten years, which were
initiated by Mongolia. Mr. Enkhbold noted that LDC's action program called for strengthening
the capacity of the International Research Center of LDC for developing policy
strategies and conducting research as priorities and the issue of improving the
air connectivity of LLDCs was included in the final document.
At the meeting, the documents related to
the arrangement and organization of the Third UN Conference were approved, as
well as the draft of the UN's action program on the issue of LLDCs for the next
ten years was approved by the member states and decided to transfer the draft
to the conference to be held in Gaborone, Botswana at the end of 2024.
