Ulaanbaatar
Mongolia chairs LLDCs Foreign Ministerial Meeting
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ On September 22, Minister of Foreign Affairs Ts.Munkh-Orgil chaired the Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDC) in the margin of the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly.
At this meeting of LLDCs on the “Coordination of implementations of SDGs 2030 and the Vienna Programme of Action”, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS), Mr Gyan Chandra Acharya, the UN Development Programme Administrator, Ms Helen Clark and the Under-Secretary-General, Mr Wu Hongbo gave updates on the UN policies and further actions addressing the challenges facing the LLDCs.
The Mongolian FM highlighted in his speech the vitality of coordinating the Vienna Programme of Actions for Landlocked Developing Countries with the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals 2030, and presented the Mongolian government’s policies and measures taken in frames of these programmes.
Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Bhutan, Zimbabwe, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Malawi, Tajikistan and Paraguay took part in this meeting and shared their views on the common challenges and ways of cooperation.
Mongolia has been elected the vice chair of the LLDCs meeting for this September.
