The second Ambassadorial Meeting of the Group of Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) under the Bureau for the years 2025¨C2026 was held on 7 April 2025. The meeting was chaired by Bolivia, with Kyrgyzstan as Vice-Chair, alongside the Bureau members from Eswatini, Lao PDR, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe. The Group welcomed briefings by Ms.
LLDCs
The lack of territorial access to the sea and the dependency on transit countries for trade routes pose significant challenges to the sustainable development of landlocked developing countries (LLDCs).
United Nations Headquarters, Conference Room 6, New York

The first Ambassadorial Meeting of the Group of Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) under the Bureau for the years 2025-2026 was held on 24 January 2025. It appreciated Botswana¡¯s leadership as outgoing Chair and the achievements of the previous Bureau.
Hosted by Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations
A meeting of the Group of Friends of LLDCs was held to provide updates on the organization of the third United Nations conference on the LLDCs. The meeting served as a platform to discuss questions around effective participation and engagement at the conference.
Theme: Building momentum towards Gaborone: Partnering for a Decade of Action and Transformation in LLDCs.
Background
Conference Room 2, United Nations, New York
Session on Forging pathways to prosperity in LLDCs: mainstreaming trade in development programmes and the role of Aid for Trade
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Session co-organizers: Botswana, Chair of the Group of Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs), and Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ-Office of the High Representative for LDC, LLDS and SIDS (Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ-OHRLLS)
Venue: Geneva, World Trade Organization, Room S2
The second session of the Preparatory Committee for the third Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries will be held on 3?June in Conference Room 2.
The agenda is available here.
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