On Sunday, the Head of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed Al-Mnifi called for “setting up a global emergency fund that will be contributed by countries with a view to confronting pandemics, and natural disasters, alleviating the effects of wars, and ensuring access to medicine and food by all underdeveloped countries.”
Addressing the opening session of the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) in Doha, Al-Mnifi reaffirmed his commitment to the principles sponsored by the United Nations towards these countries.
He stressed that least developed countries are “capable of creating a prosperous future for their people, despite the challenges and obstacles they face.”
He also stressed his support for the Doha Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2022-2031. This focuses on creating a new generation of renewed and strengthened commitments toward the least developed countries.
Al-Mnifi added that least developed countries have the “right to access knowledge and technology.”
He pointed out that Libya is “working to alleviate the suffering of landlocked countries in Africa by facilitating transit trade. There is a need to provide assistance to countries of origin and transit in Africa, to encourage migrants to stay in their countries by implementing real development projects.”
Libya is an important partner for the least developed countries, as LDC5 works to mobilize and strengthen the commitments of the international community towards the implementation of the Doha Action Program.
The conference provides an opportunity for a renewed partnership between least developed countries, and their development partners. This is to face several main challenges, including eradicating poverty, achieving internationally agreed development goals, and enabling countries to graduate from the category of least developed countries.
