ARMENIAN DELEGATION PARTICIPATED IN THE SECOND UN CONFERENCE OF LANDLOCKED DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
12:48, 07 Nov 2014
>From 3 to 5 November in Vienna the Armenian delegation took part in
the 2nd United Nations conference of landlocked developing countries
(LLDCs). The delegation was headed by the Secretary General and Chief
of Staff of MFA Shahen Avakian.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, President of Austria Heinz Fischer,
presidents of Zambia, Bolivia, Zimbabwe, prime-ministers, ministers,
other high ranking officials and heads of different international
organizations delivered welcoming addresses at the opening of the
ceremony. The Austrian Foreign minister Sebastian Kurz was elected
as Chairperson of the conference.
The main purpose of the conference was to sum up the implementation of
the Declaration and Action Plan adopted in Almaty in 2003, through
general discussion outline effective international and regional
strategies of international trade transit areas, as well as to reassure
the commitment of international community to support to landlocked
developing countries to face economic development challenges.
In his speech at the plenary session Shahen Avakian spoke
in particular about the pecularities of sustainable economic
development of geographically landlocked Armenia and the challenges
to regional cooperation. He presented the government’s investment
and development projects, reforms of transportation infrastructure,
as well as Armenia’s participation in multilateral economic formats
of regional and international cooperation.
In the framework of the conference the Armenian delegation participated
in the high-ranking thematic round table discussions, business
investment forum and a number of other parallel events.
At the conclusion of the conference the Vienna Declaration and
the Vienna Action Plan for 2014-2024 was adopted by member states,
which defined the targets of sustainable economic development for 32
developing landlocked countries and the main challenges and priorities
in their implementation process.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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