Third UN Conference on LDCs

5^th Meeting (AM)

ENHANCING AGRICULTURAL CAPACITY OF LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

ADDRESSED AT THEMATIC SESSION OF BRUSSELS CONFERENCE

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Third UN Conference on LDCs

3^rd Meeting (PM)

‘GOVERNANCE, PEACE AND SOCIAL STABILITY’ ADDRESSED IN THEMATIC SESSION

AT BRUSSELS CONFERENCE ON LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

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Third UN Conference on LDCs

1^st Meeting (AM)

THIRD UN CONFERENCE ON LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES OPENS IN BRUSSELS;

FRANCE’S PRESIDENT SAYS WORLD’S POOREST ‘MUST BE HELPED’

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Third UN Conference on LDCs

4^th Meeting (PM)

PARLIAMENTARIANS ROUND TABLE ADDRESSES COMMODITIES, DEVELOPMENT FINANCE

AT THIRD LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES CONFERENCE IN BRUSSELS

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Third UN Conference on LDCs

2^nd Meeting (AM)

‘THE CHALLENGE OF ERADICATING POVERTY; INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY RESPONSE’

SPECIAL EVENT AT BRUSSELS CONFERENCE ON LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

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Background Release

THIRD UN CONFERENCE ON LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES IN BRUSSELS, 14 - 20 MAY;

TO CONFRONT ECONOMIC ISOLATION OF ‘POOREST OF THE POOR’

Global policy-makers will confront the economic isolation and severe poverty of the world's 49 poorest countries at the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, which will be convened in Brussels, Belgium, from 14 to 20 May.

High-Level Committee on Review of TCDC

Organizational Meeting

1^st Meeting (AM)

TECHNICAL COOPERATION COMMITTEE ELECTS PRESIDENT, BUREAU

The High-Level Committee on the Review of Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries (TCDC) this morning held an organizational meeting for its twelfth session, which will be held in New York from 29 May to 1 June.

2001 UN Pledging Conference

for Development Activities

1^st Meeting (AM)

ON FIRST DAY OF PLEDGING CONFERENCE, 17 COUNTRIES PLEDGE

CONTRIBUTIONS TO UN DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

Seventeen Member States pledged their contributions to support the development activities of the United Nations system this morning, during the annual United Nations Pledging Conference for Development Activities.

UN BRUSSELS CONFERENCE TO DEAL WITH FATE OF WORLD’S POOREST COUNTRIES

Global policy makers will confront the economic isolation and severe poverty of the world’s 49 poorest countries at a United Nations conference to be convened in Brussels, Belgium, from 14 to 20 May.

Preparatory Committee for the

High-level International

 Intergovernmental Event on

 Financing for Development

1^st Meeting (AM)

FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN MONTERREY, MEXICO,

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE TOLD