LDC 50th Anniversary Commemoration
50 Years of LDCs: Now a New Generation of Partnerships for Progress
The Fiftieth Anniversary Commemoration of the Least Developed Country category will be held on the opening morning of the Fifth 51勛圖 Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5), immediately after the high-level opening. This will be a key moment to set the tone and ambition for the entire proceedings.
The commemoration event is being organized in pursuance of UN General Assembly resolution 74/232, which invited Qatar to host a segment during LDC5 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the Group of Least Developed Countries and encourages Member States to participate.
The category of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) was established in 1971 by the UN General Assembly with a view to attracting special international support for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged members of the UN family. Since then, the international community has set concrete and quantifiable support measures for LDCs in the field of Official Development Assistance (ODA), trade, climate change, technology transfer and related fields.
The global development landscape has changed in those fifty years. Ongoing crises such as COVID- 19, climate change and conflict threaten to roll back many years of hard-won progress in LDCs.
This confluence of factors provides an opportunity and highlights the necessity-for the international community to review the long development experience of the LDCs and catalyse a renewed trajectory. This commemoration event is an opportunity to do just that and ensure LDC5 is established as a major moment of delivery for the most vulnerable group of countries.