Yemen calls for more support to developing, least developed countries

NEW YORK, March 20 (Saba) - Yemen has called on the international
community to rally more unconditional
financial support to boost development and stability in developing and
the least developed countries. The international community should assume
its responsibility towards
supporting the countries to accelerate meeting the millennium goals,
said Khalid al-Yamani, the Yemeni acting delegate to the UN said in his
speech on behalf the Group 77
and China delivered at the opening of the Special High-Level Meeting of
the Economic and Social Council with the Bretton Woods Institutions, the
World Trade Organization
and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Yemen also
stressed the need for improving leadership frameworks of international
financial organizations to absorb
more ordinary and equal representation for developing and least
developed countries. It, furthermore, underlined the role of the UN in
dealing with financial and economic
issues including the role in coordinating and reviewing cooperation =
between international financial organizations. The meeting also dealt
with ways to go ahead with the 2002
Mexico Conference and its decisions as well as the recommendations of
the 2008 Doha meeting on development funding. FR