His Excellency Dr. Lazarus Chakwera, President of the Republic of Malawi, and Chairman of the Group of Least Developed Countries, valued the State of Qatar’s provision of a financial contribution of a total of 60 million US dollars, to support the implementation of the activities of the Doha Work Program for the least developed countries, and to support the aspired results of the Doha Work Program and build resilience capacities in the least developed countries. developed countries.
In his speech before the opening session of the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, His Excellency the President of the Republic of Malawi called on the international partners to follow the example of Qatar, saying: "I am confident that our development partners will respond with the required technical and financial support in the same way that the State of Qatar did.".
He added, we must acknowledge that what we are doing here in Doha makes this conference a pivotal point in our contemporary history.. A new contemporary phase has arrived in which we find that multilateral international cooperation and cooperation between countries that help each other on an equal footing is today’s circumstance. He called for the participation of the least developed countries in moving forward on this path, the path of strengthening this momentum "And when we proceed from all this, we must preserve this momentum and not lose it"…in reference to the lessons learned from the implementation of the previous program of the Doha Program, which constituted a pillar within the efforts of the international community to develop the group of least developed countries, lift them out of poverty and qualify them to integrate strongly into the wheel of the international economy.
President Chakwera said "We should not focus on what other nations have that we do not have.. The real progress is owned by those who focus on what they themselves own and how to use what they have in order to build their future in a better way, and in our case (the least developed countries) we have the UN Sustainable Development Goals that remind us of the days And so let us not lose hope. Let us move forward until we finish what we started".
His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of the State of Qatar, announced during the opening of the work of the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries today, a financial contribution of a total amount of 60 million US dollars, of which 10 million dollars is allocated to support the implementation of activities Doha Work Program for the Least Developed Countries, and $50 million is allocated to support the aspired results of the Doha Work Program and build resilience capacities in the least developed countries, calling on development partners to follow the example of Qatar and take the initiative to support the implementation of the Doha Work Program as part of the humanitarian and development duty towards the peoples of countries. least developed.
The Doha Work Program identifies five key deliverables that will assist LDCs in removing a number of structural impediments to inclusive growth and sustainable development. These achievements aim to bridge pervasive gaps in education, food security, and investment for sustainable development and resilience to climate change. It also aims to support least developed countries to exit this category in order to fully integrate into the global economy. The Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries represents a critical test of the promised progress on the Sustainable Development Goals and the international community’s resolve to support the most underdeveloped countries through those commitments.
