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Least Developed Nations Declare They Lived Up to Their End of Bargain, Say Donors Must Live Up to Theirs, as Istanbul Conference Continues

ISTANBUL, 9 May — Declaring that they had lived up to their end of the development partnership bargain, leaders from developing nations called for renewed political will from donors to help them stimulate economic activity, create jobs, participate as equals in global trade and turn back the ravages of poverty, as talks on a new 10-year development programme for the world’s poorest countries got under way in Istanbul this afternoon.

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‘Encouraging but Slow Progress’ Marks Search for Common Ground on Outcome Document for Conference on Least Developed Countries, as Formal Preparations Conclude

The Secretary-General of the upcoming Fourth United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries characterized negotiations towards commitments for development assistance to those countries as making “encouraging but slow progress”, as the second session of the Intergovernmental Preparatory Committee closed this afternoon.
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Secretary-General of May Least Developed Countries Conference Calls for Intensified Efforts to Forge Action Programme, as Preparatory Committee Opens Final Session

The Secretary-General of the upcoming Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries called on Member States to intensify their efforts to forge a programme of action that would have concrete results in improving the lives of people in the poorest States, as he opened the second Intergovernmental Preparatory Meeting for the Conference this morning.
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Delegates in Preparatory Meeting Express Concern about Shortage of Countries ‘Graduating’ from Least Developed Status over Last Decade

Amid widespread concern that more of the world’s poorest nations had not graduated to the next stage of socio-economic development in the last 10 years, officials from developing countries pressed today for the fulfilment of development assistance pledges, reform of trade policies and the transfer of technology, while urging the United Nations to help devise specially tailored strategies to help ease the transition to prosperity.
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Upcoming Conference on Least Developed Countries must Find Ways to Improve Life for Millions, Its Secretary-General Tells Preparatory Meeting

The upcoming Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, which would determine the development paradigm for years to come, must come up with concrete ways to achieve sustainable economic prosperity in those 48 nations and improve the lot of their millions of poor people, the Secretary-General of the Conference said at the opening session of its Intergovernmental Preparatory Meeting.