A United Nations-backed conference aimed at accelerating an ambitious development plan for the world's 32 landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) concluded today in Zambia with a global 'Call to Action' intended to streamline their path towards sustainable, inclusive and economic progress.
The three-day high-level meeting, held in Livingstone, builds on the successes of the Vienna Programme of Action (VPoA), in which Member States outlined a 10-year blueprint for the development of LLDCs based on overcoming challenges related to "landlockedness, remoteness and geographical disadvantages," according to a press release issued by the UN Office for Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries, and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS).
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