- Nepal's Permanent Representative and Ambassador to the UN, Gyan Chandra Acharya, has called upon the development partners to provide financial and technical assistance to support least developed countries' policies and programmes.
Addressing the forty- fifth session of Commission on Population and Development in New York, Acharya asked them to provide economic opportunities and to support formal and non-formal education systems in the LDCs for capacity-building and skill development of youth and adolescent.
"We also believe that the upcoming UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) to be held in June this year, in Rio, Brazil will also take necessary measures in addressing the problems and challenges relating to population and development and their interplay," Acharya said.
Sustainable development and poverty alleviation has to give due priority to population dynamics and in particular the challenges of adolescents and youth, who are the future of the nation, he said.
Despite progress made on many fronts, more than a billion people in theworld still live in miserable condition, Acharya pointed out, the LDCs continue to face severe challenges in providing health care services."We have seen that maternal and child mortality rates are highest in LDCs. Similarly, majority of LDCs have high fertility rates."
The child and maternal health related challenges also remain very high and the proportion of youth population in these countries is one of the highest, explained Acharya.
"We must make sure that there is supportive relationship between the population growth and economic development by promoting the potentials of the LDC population through their overall development. We need a stronger and targeted global cooperation and support particularly when we look at the challenges and the capacity constraintsof the LDCs," Acharya said.
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