Least Developed

Ban Ki-moon (R) and Alpha Oumar Konare

UN-tasked eminent persons stress commitment to poor States’ development

13 October 2010
A member of the Group of Eminent Persons appointed by Secretary-General Ban K-moon to look into development problems facing the world’s poorest countries today stressed that both developed and developing countries must fulfil their commitments to poverty reduction strategies for the efforts to bear fruit.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

UN chief appoints eminent persons to boost support for world’s poorest nations

25 August 2010
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today appointed a Group of Eminent Persons to advise on the support needed to help the world’s poorest nations achieve their development targets, ahead of a major international conference on the least developed countries (LDCs) slated for next year.
High Representative, Cheick Sidi Diarra

International support for world’s poorest nations must not waver – UN official

19 March 2010
The progress made over the past decade in lifting the world’s most vulnerable nations out of poverty has been undermined since the global recession began, according to a senior United Nations official, who urged rich countries not to renege on their commitments to support the poorest of the poor.
ESCAP Executive Secretary Noeleen Heyzer

Senior UN officials urge greater efforts to help least developed countries

18 January 2010
Senior United Nations officials today called for greater efforts to help the world’s poorest countries meet their development targets, as a three-day meeting kicked off in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to examine a decade of assistance to this group of nations.

Kigali meeting focuses on helping world’s poorest States boost industrial capacity

8 September 2008
Representatives of governments, United Nations agencies, financial institutions and donors have assembled in Kigali to discuss how to help the world’s least developed countries (LDCs) to build up their capacity in the fields of trade and industrial development.