Yerevan to host Ministerial Meeting of the Landlocked Developing Countries
The Ministerial Meeting of the Landlocked Developing Countries will take place on December 14-15 in Yerevan, Armenia, ARMENPRESS reports.
The meeting will be one of the biggest events held in Armenia jointly with the UN.
The ministerial event is an official themed meeting ahead of the Third United Nations Conference on the Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDC3) to be held in 2024 in Kigali, Rwanda.
The Yerevan meeting will be attended by over 30 foreign delegations, including the foreign ministers of Botswana and Nepal, the transport ministers of Zimbabwe, Eswatini and Lesotho, the tourism minister of Malawi, the deputy foreign ministers of Georgia and Paraguay, and deputy transport ministers of Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.
Representatives of international organizations will also attend the meeting, particularly the UN High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS) Rabab Fatima, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) Tatiana Molcean, TRACECA Secretary General Aset Assavbayev and the deputy director general of WTO.
The secretaries-general of the World Customs Organization and the Organization of Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC), as well as UN officials, will deliver speeches via video.
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