Joint GA-ECOSOC Thematic Event on Landlocked Developing Countries
Background
The Third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) will be held from 18 to 21 June 2024, in Kigali, Rwanda, in accordance with General Assembly resolutions 76/217, 77/246 and 77/329. The Conference will undertake a comprehensive appraisal of the implementation of the Vienna Programme of Action, which was adopted by the second United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries held in Vienna, Austria in 2014.In its resolution 77/246, the General Assembly also requested the President of the General Assembly and the President of the Economic and Social Council to organize a half-day dedicated thematic event in the second half of 2023 in order to provide substantive input to the Conference.
The Third UN Conference on LLDCs will chart a new ambitious, comprehensive, forward-looking Programme of Action for LLDCs, to enable LLDCs to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic; build resilience against future shocks; overcome their geographical constraints; and accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to ensure that LLDCs are not left further behind. The GA-ECOSOC thematic event will be an extraordinary opportunity to address the special needs and challenges of LLDCs and provide substantive inputs to the Third UN Conference on LLDCs.
Participants
Member States, Observers, UN System, non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the ECOSOC, other relevant Non-Governmental Organizations, Civil Society Organizations, academic institutions and the private sector.
Programme Overview
The High-Level Opening of the event will feature statements by the President of General Assembly, the President of Economic and Social Council, the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, the Under Secretary-General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Botswana, as representative from a landlocked developing country and in capacity as Chair of LLDCs.
Following the opening segment, three keynote speakers will be invited to address the meeting. Then, Member States will deliver general statements on their priorities for the next 10-year Programme of Action for the LLDCs. There will be no pre-established list of speakers. Time limits for interventions will be three (3) minutes for individual delegations, and five (5) minutes for interventions on behalf of a group of States.
The event will also feature interventions from representatives of relevant stakeholders.
The event will end with a short closing segment.
Concept Note
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