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Benin: LCDs, a force to unite partners, says UNDP
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The group of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) is a force that unites partners against poverty, Director of the UNDP regional office for Africa Abdoulaye Mar Dieye said in Cotonou on Sunday.
“The Least Developed countries are a unity force to mobilise partners and pave the way for actions at the international level to eradicate poverty, inequalities and hunger, to face the problems related to marginalisation in the global economy and to eradicate also the structural weaknesses, as well as other challenges linked to development,” Mr Dieye said at the opening ceremony of the LDC experts' meeting on the implementation of the Istanbul programme.
''All these problems are as many challenges facing poor countries, the weakest and the most vulnerable, as their inhabitants,'' he said.
''It is today more important than ever to remind of the time when intermediary revenue countries benefit from global support because they accommodate more than 70% of the poor in the world and that the majority of intermediary revenue countries have the capacity to face a large part of those development problems as they are not as underprivileged as the LCDs,'' the UNDP official added.
He said the weakness in their level of human development, the shortage in their production capacities, the limitation of their financial resources and the deficit in infrastructure continue to seriously affect the development efforts for those countries.
Mr, Dieye suggested particular and well-targeted attention to face those structural obstacles and establish peace, security and prosperity for all, stressing that the implementation of the Istanbul action plan offers a platform to spark significant and targeted attention, as well as sustained support to LCDs.
The annual workshop for LCD national programmes is being held ahead of the ministerial conference due to open Monday.
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“The Least Developed countries are a unity force to mobilise partners and pave the way for actions at the international level to eradicate poverty, inequalities and hunger, to face the problems related to marginalisation in the global economy and to eradicate also the structural weaknesses, as well as other challenges linked to development,” Mr Dieye said at the opening ceremony of the LDC experts' meeting on the implementation of the Istanbul programme.
''All these problems are as many challenges facing poor countries, the weakest and the most vulnerable, as their inhabitants,'' he said.
''It is today more important than ever to remind of the time when intermediary revenue countries benefit from global support because they accommodate more than 70% of the poor in the world and that the majority of intermediary revenue countries have the capacity to face a large part of those development problems as they are not as underprivileged as the LCDs,'' the UNDP official added.
He said the weakness in their level of human development, the shortage in their production capacities, the limitation of their financial resources and the deficit in infrastructure continue to seriously affect the development efforts for those countries.
Mr, Dieye suggested particular and well-targeted attention to face those structural obstacles and establish peace, security and prosperity for all, stressing that the implementation of the Istanbul action plan offers a platform to spark significant and targeted attention, as well as sustained support to LCDs.
The annual workshop for LCD national programmes is being held ahead of the ministerial conference due to open Monday.
-0- PANA IT/BEH/MSA/SEG 27July2014
