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The Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS) at the United Nations advocates in favour of LDCs within the United Nations and with other partners, assists LDCs in mobilizing resources and other forms of support and provides support to group consultations of LDCs and conferences such as the Fifth United Nations Conference on the LDCs (LDC5). It also monitors the implementation of programmes of action for LDCs and supported the establishment of the LDC Technology Bank and the Investment Support Programme for LDCs, among other activities.
LDCs are articulated as a group in negotiations on different issues:
- The Group of LDCs at the United Nations in New York promotes and protects LDC interests in implementing international development agendas. They are supported by UN-OHRLLS. The Group meets every year at the level of Ministers of Foreign Affairs on the margins of the high-level week of the UN General Assembly. Ministers adopt an annual declaration that determines the Group's priorities. See also LDC Group and Bureau.
- The WTO LDC Group was established in 2001 to coordinate the positions of LDCs in the WTO. In 2021 it included 35 members and eight observers. The group's positions are guided by the declarations of the LDC trade ministers on WTO issues usually adopted on the margins of WTO ministerial conferences.
- The LDC Group on climate change “supports LDCs to negotiate as a bloc at the intergovernmental negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change sessions, to effectively represent their collective needs”. More information here.
The Board of Advisers on LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS was reconstituted in October 2021 by the President of the General Assembly and is composed of 16 members, including 7 permanent representatives to the United Nations, the Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, the High-Representative for LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS, and other UN officials, and the Senior Vice-President of the UN Foundation. More information here.
