Moldovan deputy minister delivers speech at high-level forum

Chisinau, 29 September /MOLDPRES/- Deputy Foreign and European Integration Minister Andrei Galbur delivered a speech at a high-level forum of Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDC) on 28 September, organised in the context of the 70th meeting of UN General Assembly, the Foreign and European Integration Ministry's communication and media relations service has reported.

The event brought together state officials, representatives of donor countries and high-ranking officials of international organisations, including UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. They discussed the difficulties faced by developing states in ensuring sustainable development, as well as possibility to connect the countries to global opportunities in the context of adopting a new post-2015 development agenda.

In his speech, Galbur highlighted importance of partnerships in meeting goals on sustainable development, meant to ensure sustainability of reforms and positive transformations in the developing countries without seaside.

The forum ended with adoption of a declaration in New York, saying that the developing states reconfirmed their commitment to speed up reforms, stressing the importance of partnerships and UN role in carrying out the development agenda.

The Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDC) represent a group of 32 African, European and Asian countries members of the United Nations, which face a string of constraints to carry out trade and get economic progress, given the lack of direct access to the sea. To overcome the difficulties, an action programme was adopted in Vienna setting development priorities for the countries in such sectors as: transit policies, development and maintenance of infrastructure, trade facilitation and regional integration.

(Editor A. Răileanu)