Qatar Confirms Full Commitment to UNCTAD Mission of Promoting Development

Geneva, March 23 (QNA) - The State of Qatar remains fully committed to UNCTAD's mission of promoting development and enabling all to live in "larger freedom"; and to the results that have been reached during the UNCTAD XIII, which was held in Doha last year, HE Qatar's Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage and President of the UNCTAD XIII Dr. Hamad bin Abdulaziz al-Kuwari confirmed. Addressing the 27th Special Session of the Trade and Development Board (TDB), held in Geneva yesterday to endorse Peru as the venue for the fourteenth United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD XIV), the UNCTAD XIII President confirmed that Qatar also remains fully engaged in UNCTAD's efforts to face current challenges such as the fallout from the global financial crisis and the ramifications of major political and economic changes around the world, such as those taking place in the Middle East. He urged to seize the opportunity offered by the next conference, to be held in Peru in 2015, to re-determine the prospects for the future, and develop a modern and contemporary vision of UNCTAD, pointing out that 14th UNCTAD conference could be beginning of a new golden age in the development process. The UNCTAD President also called for making the 50th anniversary of UNCTAD an occasion for launching constructive ideas contribute tangibly to the process of formulating a development framework beyond 2015. Dr. al-Kuwari noted that the UNCTAD XIII adopted two important outcome documents - the "Doha Mandate" and the "Doha Manar" - which underlined that finance, should support the real economy towards sustainable, sustained, inclusive and equitable economic growth and sustainable development. The President of UNCTAD XIII welcomed Peru's host of the next conference, and congratulated Ambassador Mukhtar Tileuberdi of Kazakhstan for assuming the Presidency of the TDB, succeeding Ambassador Juri Seilenthal of Estonia. (QNA)