Intergovernmental Preparatory Committee

For Third United Nations Conference

 On Least Developed Countries

1^st Meeting (AM)

MARKET ACCESS, ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE AND DEBT CANCELLATION AMONG ISSUES

HIGHLIGHTED AT OPENING OF LDC PREPARATORY MEETING

UN SECRETARY-GENERAL OFFERS GLOBAL PLAN ON DEVELOPMENT FINANCES

Report Proposes Reforms for Crisis Prevention, Global Tax Loopholes,

Market Access and National Financial and Legal Infrastructures

                                                      POP/785

Press Release
DEV/2271

VOLUNTEERISM ‘A MOST UNDERVALUED ASSET’, PARTICIPANTS ARE TOLD AT OPENING OF INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF VOLUNTEERS 2001

High Levels of Civic Engagement Mean Lower Levels Of Communal Strife, Says Secretary-General in Keynote Speech

Press Release
DEV/2270

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR HIGH-LEVEL FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT EVENT CONCLUDES FIRST SUBSTANTIVE SESSION

Committee Approves Text on Substantive Preparatory Process and Event

Press Release
DEV/2269

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR HIGH-LEVEL EVENT ON FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT CONTINUES FIRST SUBSTANTIVE SESSION

Six NGOs Provisionally Approved For Accreditation in Preparatory Process and Event Itself

Press Release
DEV/2268
GA/9806

EIGHT ADDITIONAL COUNTRIES PLEDGE CONTRIBUTIONS TO UN DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES, AS PLEDGING CONFERENCE CONCLUDES

Member States were commended for their continued support of United Nations development activities, as the annual two-day United Nations Pledging Conference for Development Activities concluded this morning.

Press Release
DEV/2267
GA/9802

TWENTY-ONE COUNTRIES PLEDGE CONTRIBUTIONS TO UN DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES AMID ASSERTIONS THAT PLEDGING CONFERENCE HAS OUTLIVED ITS PURPOSE

Twenty-one Member States pledged their contributions to support the development activities of the United Nations system, as the annual two-day United Nations Pledging Conference for Development Activities began this morning.

Press Release
DEV/2266

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR HIGH-LEVEL EVENT ON FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT PROVISIONALLY APPROVES LIST OF NGO PARTICIPANTS

As it resumed its first substantive session this morning, the Preparatory Committee for the High-Level International Intergovernmental Event on Financing for Development provisionally approved 12 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for accreditation in the preparatory process and the Event.

Press Release
DEV/2260
PI/1296

UNITED NATIONS POINTS TO AGRICULTURE AS ESCAPE FROM ‘POVERTY TRAP’

NEW YORK, 28 September -- Agriculture, often given short shrift in development planning, can play a key and even a leading role in breaking out of the vicious cycles in which many poor countries are trapped, the authors of the United Nations World Economic and Social Survey 2000 contend.