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The Ministerial Meetings for LDCs and LLDCs Concluded with Strong Commitments to Achieve Global Goals

During the 78th session of the United Nations GeneraL Assembly, UN-OHRLLS urges global leaders to bolster support for vulnerable nations, accelerating progress on global goals.

The Ministerial Meetings for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) have concluded with a strong political declaration, reinforcing shared commitments and laying out actionable steps for a sustainable future.

Download the 2023 LDCs Ministerial Declaration

Download the 2023 LLDCs Ministerial Declaration

View our events:

Sep 17 - Regaining lost ground in the LLDCs: The role of trade and digitalization

Sep 17 - Scaling blended finance to mobilize private SDG investments in LDCs and other vulnerable countries

Sep 21 - 22nd Annual Ministerial Meeting of Foreign Ministers of LLDCs

Sep 21 - Annual Ministerial Meeting of Least Developed Countries
^NewFinal Report of High Level Panel on the Development of a Multidimensional Vulnerability Index (September 2023)

Supporting 92 Vulnerable States

The United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS) supports groups of vulnerable countries in the United Nations system.

The 46 Least Developed Countries, 32 Landlocked Developing Countries and 39 Small Island Developing States have their own special challenges.

3rd UN Conference on the LLDCs

June 2024, Kigali, Rwanda

4th International Conference on SIDS

Antigua and Barbuda, 2024

5th UN Conference on the LDCs (LDC5)

5-9 March 2023, Doha, Qatar

Least Developed
Countries

Least Developed Countries (LDCs) represent the poorest and most vulnerable segment of the international community.

Multidimensional Vulnerability Index

A High-Level Panel was convened by the President of the General Assembly of the United Nations in 2022 to develop a Multidimensional Vulnerability Index (MVI). It is intended that the MVI, using a data-driven approach to define what it means to be vulnerable, will support an evidence-based approach to development policy and decision making, especially in the context of increasingly scarce external financing resources.

Theme report on Energy Access

Theme report on Energy Access

Landlocked Developing
Countries

Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) face challenges due to their remoteness, lack of territorial access to the sea and significant distance from world markets.