Source The United Nations
The world’s Least Developed Countries are in a race against time to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. The remaining years need to usher in a new global partnership to ensure these 46 countries benefit from social, economic and environmental development.
Media www.rajawalisiber.com – 50 Years of LDCs: Now a New Generation of Partnerships for Progress The Fiftieth Anniversary Commemoration of the Least Developed Country category will be held on the opening morning of the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5), immediately after the high-level opening. This will be a key moment to set the tone and ambition for the entire proceedings.
The commemoration event is being organized in pursuance of UN General Assembly resolution 74/232, which invited Qatar to host a segment during LDC5 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the Group of Least Developed Countries and encourages Member States to participate.
The category of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) was established in 1971 by the UN General Assembly with a view to attracting special international support for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged members of the UN family. Since then, the international community has set concrete and quantifiable support measures for LDCs in the field of Official Development Assistance (ODA), trade, climate change, technology transfer and related fields.
The global development landscape has changed in those fifty years. Ongoing crises such as COVID- 19, climate change and conflict threaten to roll back many years of hard-won progress in LDCs.
This confluence of factors provides an opportunity and highlights the necessity-for the international community to review the long development experience of the LDCs and catalyse a renewed trajectory. This commemoration event is an opportunity to do just that and ensure LDC5 is established as a major moment of delivery for the most vulnerable group of countries.
The Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5 ) in Doha, Qatar on 5-9 March, 2023 is a once-in-a-decade opportunity to accelerate sustainable development in the places where international assistance is needed the most – and to tap the full potential of the Least Developed Countries helping them make progress on the road to prosperity.
Speakers: President of the Conference; Secretary-General of the United Nations; President of the General Assembly; President of the Economic and Social Council; Chairperson of the Group of Least Developed Countries;
Prime Minister of Bangladesh; President of the European Council; President of Türkiye; Youth representative from a least developed country.