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Lukashenko invited to UN Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries

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MINSK, 20 August (BelTA) - UN Secretary General António Guterres has sent an invitation to Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko to participate in the Third UN Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries. The forum is due in Botswana in December of this year, press secretary of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Anatoly Glaz told BelTA.

"UN Secretary General António Guterres has sent the invitation to the head of state. In his response message, the Belarusian president confirmed our interest. Belarus and other landlocked countries face the same challenges. We are all very vulnerable to the actions by our neighbors, the coastal states. Belarus also fully feels the consequences of the illegal actions by a number of countries, which limit our country’s right of access to and from the sea envisaged in the UN Convention," Anatoly Glaz said.

“We plan to attend the conference at the level of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,” Anatoly Glaz said.

At the forum Belarus intends to raise the issue of making a number of countries to fulfill their international obligations within the existing legal documents.

The First UN Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries was held in Almaty in August 2003. The Vienna Program of Action for Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014–2024 was adopted at the second United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries, held in Vienna in November 2014. The third international conference is scheduled to take place in Gaborone, Botswana, on 10-13 December 2024. The purpose of the upcoming conference is to assess the implementation of the Vienna Program of Action and to develop and adopt a new strategic document for the relevant category of countries.

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