The first-ever Least Developed Countries (LDC) Future Forum opened on Wednesday, October 6, 2021, in Helsinki, Finland, with Liberia participating. The forum is being held on the theme: ‘Achieving Sustainable Development in the Least Developed Countries’ and will contribute to the Fifth United Nations Conference on LDCs (LDC5), expected to take place in Doha, Qatar, in January 2022.
HIS EXCELLENCY MR. ANTÓNIO GUTERRES, Secretary General of the United Nations
EXCELLENCIES, HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT;
AMBASSADORS; HEADS OF DELEGATIONS; ESTEEMED DELEGATES;
DISTINGUISHED LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
I am pleased and honored to address this Seventy-sixth (76th) Session of the United Nations General Assembly on behalf of the Government and People of Liberia.
His Excellency Mr. Antonio Guterres
Secretary-General of the United Nations
Ladies & Gentlemen:
On behalf of my Government, I commend you, Mr. Secretary-General, for your inspiring and visionary leadership; and in particular, for dedicating this year - 2021 - to the advancement of the vision of the 2030 Agenda through the transformation of our global food systems.