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Towards sustainable, resilient COVID-19 recovery: Bridging the LLDCs’ trade gap

The objective of the LLDC Ministerial Meeting on Trade is to share experiences including on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic and best practice examples of promoting international trade, trade facilitation and connectivity and their role in achieving resilient recovery. Ministers will also develop and strengthen their collective position in multilateral trade negotiations for the benefit of LLDCs and prepare a common position of the LLDC Group for input into the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference. The meeting will identify recommendations for enhancing trade and trade facilitation as well as strengthen transit cooperation within the context of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement.

The meeting will also discuss issues under discussion in the WTO as well as the possible deliverables of the Ministerial Conference and the future work program of the WTO.

Documents

Ministerial DeclarationPDF

Concept notePDFOpens a new window

ProgrammePDFOpens a new window

Statements

Opening RemarksPDF by H.E. Ms. Battsetseg Batmunkh, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia

Opening RemarksPDF by Mr. E. Courtenay Rattray, High-Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States

Keynote addressPDF by Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the WTO

StatementPDF of H.E. Mr. Mmusi Kgafela, Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry of Botswana

StatementPDF of Kyrgyz Republic

StatementPDF of Lao PDR

StatementPDF of H.E. Mr. Dinesh Bhattarai of Nepal

StatementPDF of Paraguay

StatementPDF of H.E. Mr. Jamshed Khamidov, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Tajikistan to the UNOG

Statement PDFof H.E. Mr. James Manzou, Secretary for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Zimbabwe