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Bangladesh briefs Group of 77 for UN Conference on LDCs in New York |
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February 6, 2001
Dhaka-- (UNB) – Bangladesh’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Anwarul Karim Chowdhury has stressed on capacity building, both human and institutional, for improvement of living conditions in the least developed countries. According to a press release from New York, Anwarul Karim Chowdhury regretted lack of adequate follow up of the Programme of Action which, he said, should be particularly focused. He was briefing the Group of 77 regarding the preparation for the Preparatory Committee session on the Third UN Conference on LDCs to be held in New York from 5 to 9 February. The one-week Preparatory Committee session is part of the extensive preparation for the LDC conference that will be hosted by the European Union in Brussels next May. A second session of the Preparatory Committee will be held from 2 to 6 April. The least developed countries, under the chairmanship of Bangladesh, was for the last two weeks involved in an intensive exercise of formulating their position on the draft programme of action. Ambassador Chowdhury, who is also the Coordination of the LDCs, told the meeting that three core issues of importance for LDCs are free access to markets in the developed countries, cancellation of their debt burden and increase of official development assistance. Referring to the draft programme of Action for LDCs for 2001-2010, he said that the draft needed to include social dimensions of the conditions of LDCs. Ambassador Chowdhury is a vice-chairman of the 10-member Bureau of the Preparatory Committee charged with the preparation of the conference, including the preparation of the forward looking document for the LDCs. Ambassador Jacque Scavee of Belgium, the host country of the LDC conference, is the chairman of the Bureau. |