Mon, 25 Sep 2017 12:30:54 +0000 By Sandra Machima SOCIAL and economic development agenda for Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) has continued to face major challenges in the absence of resilient transport infrastructure, says Foreign Affairs minister Harry Kalaba. He said the challenges had continued despite having implemented the Vienna Programme of Action and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as well as the Paris Agreement. Mr Kalaba said this when he opened the annual ministerial meeting of Foreign Ministers of Landlocked Developing Countries alongside the United Nations General Assembly that was held in New York recently. In a press statement released by Zambia Mission first press secretary in New York Wallen Simwaka, Mr Kalaba said the social and economic development agenda of LLDCs had continued to face challenges because of lack of resilient transport infrastructure. Mr Kalaba said the LLDCs in the Vienna Programme of Action called for enhanced structural economic transformation, value-added trade facilitation […]
