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Transport in Asia.
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Asia-Pacific: UN official urges deeper regional connectivity for landlocked developing countries

7 November 2014
Greater regional connectivity through integrated and terrestrial networks is vital to effectively linking Asia’s 12 landlocked development countries (LLDCs) to the region’s infrastructure networks, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) said today.
UN High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States Gyan Chandra Acharya.
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UN conference adopts ambitious 10-year action plan for world's landlocked developing countries

5 November 2014
A United Nations conference concluded in Vienna, Austria today with the adoption of a 10-year action plan aimed at accelerating sustainable development in the world’s 32 landlocked developing countries (LLDCs).
ESCAP Executive Secretary Shamsahd Akhtar.
UNESCAP/Christian Dohrmann

UN official calls for economic diversification for Asia’s landlocked developing countries

5 November 2014
Asia’s landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) need a stable investment-friendly and competitive macro-economic policy framework, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) said Tuesday, calling for action to promote economic diversification in order to reduce volatility of economic and export growth.
Secretary General of the Second UN Conference on landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) Gyan Chandra Acharya.
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Private sector can boost growth in landlocked developing countries – senior UN official

4 November 2014
Private sector engagement is key to accelerating development in the world’s 32 landlocked developing countries (LLDCs), said delegates attending an event in the margins of the Second United Nations Conference on LLDCs, currently underway in Vienna, Austria.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (front, left) accompanied by Heinz Fischer, President of Austria and Yury Fedotov, Director-General, UN Office in Vienna, arriving for the Second UN Conference on landlocked developing countries (LLDC), in Vienna, Austria.
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At UN conference, top officials urge greater development assistance for landlocked countries

3 November 2014
The international community must aid the world’s landlocked developing countries (LLDC) in pursuing their goals for greater economic development to transition from being landlocked to “landlinked,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon advised today, noting that only through comprehensive improvements in trade would such nations be best prepared to tackle the post-2015 agenda.
The Phoenix Island Protected Area (PIPA) is one of three island groups in Kiribati, a Least Developed Country (LDC).
UNESCO/Ron Van Oers

Far greater effort needed to eradicate extreme poverty in world’s poorest nations – UN report

23 October 2014
While the world’s 48 most vulnerable nations continue to make in-roads into poverty reduction, a far greater effort is needed if these countries are to eradicate extreme poverty by 2020, according to a new report launched at the United Nations today.
Gyan Chandra Acharya.
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Delegates at UN forum back effort to help landlocked developing countries harness trade

3 June 2014
Ahead of a major United Nations conference on landlocked development countries (LLDCs) set for later this year, delegates at a high-level meeting in Mongolia have called for the immediate ratification of an agreement which will help boost trade and make it easier for these countries to participate competitively in global markets.