MONGOLIA'S INITIATIVE ON THINK-TANK FOR LLDCS REFLECTED IN VIENNA ACTION PLAN

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Mongolia's initiative on establishing an international Think-Tank for Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) in Ulaanbaatar was supported at the Second UN Conference for LLDCs and has been reflected in the Vienna Action plan for 2014-2024. The conference, which completed on November 5, developed the Vienna Action Plan after careful observations over the Almaty Plan for the last decade. General issues outlined in the Plan are the matters of infrastructure, facilitating trades, economic diversification, value-added production industry, agricultural development and a development of regional integration. The Plan aims to improve sustainability and sufficiency in the development of LLDCs. Reflecting the initiative on the Think-Tank in the Plan is of great importance in terms of supporting its establishment in our city, studying unique needs of LLDCs, protecting their interests on international arena. A head of the Department for International Organizations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Economic Cooperation of Mongolia G.Ganbold attended a sub-conference themed “Linking LLDCs to the regional infrastructural network” to present our Government's measures for the transportation, energy and information technology. Our delegates also held meetings with some representatives of other LLDCs and touched upon matters of cooperation in establishing the International Think Tank.