This report was prepared by UN-OHRLLS per its mandate to serve as a focal point for the Fifth UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) and to mobilize and coordinate the active involvement of the UN system (as requested in UN General Assembly 73/242).
As the decade of the Istanbul Programme of Action (IPoA) draws to a close and in preparation for the Fifth United Nations Conference of the LDCs, the Office of the High Representative of the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (OHRLLS), called upon all LDC member states to submit national reports on the progress of implementation of the IPoA. A total of 28 national reports were received by OHRLLS.
As preparations get underway for the 5th UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5), OHRLLS is co-organising a high-level event to explore the impacts of COVID-19 on development in the LDCs.
Excellencies,
Colleagues,
Ladies and gentlemen,
It is my privilege to introduce two reports to you.
They are the Secretary-General’s 2020 Reports on:
On 8 October, the Second Committee took up Item 23: Groups of countries in special situations:
Excellencies,
Colleagues,
Ladies and gentlemen,
It is a fact that the LDCs, LLDCs and African countries are especially hard hit by COVID-19 and the world-wide recession this pandemic triggers.
Excellencies,
Colleagues,
Ladies and gentlemen,
We are now closing our meeting.
We have a challenging road ahead.
Excellencies,
Colleagues,
Ladies and gentlemen,
I warmly welcome all of you to our twentieth Session of the Inter-Agency Consultative Group on the Istanbul Programme of Action for the LDCs.
Excellencies,
Colleagues,
Ladies and gentlemen,
We remain in the midst of an unprecedented situation since the start of this year. No country or individual is spared from the truly global impacts of COVID-19.
