According to a press release issued by the office of the Permanent Mission of Nepal Tuesday, Acharya highlighted the problems faced by the LDCs and urged the international community to carry out special measures to resolve these difficulties. He mentioned that the "multiple challenges of economic crisis, food security and climate change" had caused an immense impact on the LDCs. These global crises have posed a serious challenge to the fight against poverty and threatened the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals.
Acharya underscored an internationally supported special rescue package for the LDCs in the face of current economic and financial crises that have severely hit their trade, tourism, remittances, jobs, debt servicing and investment. He also emphasized the need to implement the Brussels Programme of Action for 2001-10, agreed as an international compact in the remaining period.
Acharya also called for a special attention to needs of the LDCs for "adaptation, mitigation and financial and technological resources" while sealing the deal in Copenhagen. He further emphasized on the needs to look after the LDCs which are small islands and which are in ice-melting zones of the Himalayas. He also laid emphasis on the concerted preparatory process in the run-up to the Fourth Conference of the LDCs to be held in 2011 in Turkey.
He also said that the World Food Summit to be held in Rome in November should be used as an opportunity to address the current weaknesses of the institutions, trading practices and policies to address the vulnerability of hungry people.
Acharya also stressed the urgent necessity to re-launch and complete the stalled Doha round of WTO negotiations and implementation of the agreed duty-free-quota-free access to the products of the LDCs in the markets of the developed countries.
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