Asian Group (UNCTAD)

15 November 2007
Asian Group (UNCTAD)

Introduction

Addressing the challenges of the current stage of globalization and creating opportunities for development

On the paragraph 2, China propose to change “a lack of productive capacity and a lack of access to basic services” because of extreme poverty is due to many reasons and not only the lack of productive capacity and access to basic services.

Chairman of Asian group explain to Liban Delegation that we need to take political decision behind to make actions on the ground.

Liban and Singapour want to do one paragraph with paragraph 3 and 4 because of unuse of an example in paragraph 4: “For example, the challenges faced by the least developed countries (LDCs) and some African countries are different from those faced by some countries with economies in transition, and their capacities for tackling the challenges are different too, even though all are seeking to benefit from the new wave of globalization in which the South is playing an increasingly significant role”.

However, Chair of Asian group prefer to keep the separate paragraph.

On the paragraph 5 and 23, Liban desire to speak about “developed countries” rather than “advanced countries”.

On the paragraph 8, the word “finished” is negative for the Philippines delegation, so Bangladesh proposes to use the word “single” to speak about economic model.

Chair thinks that development on paragraph 14 concern all the level and not only the national level: “At the national level, sustainable and equitable development requires pro-growth macroeconomic policies, efficient structural policies, good governance and respect for human and economic rights”

Pakistan wants to delete “At the national level”.


Damien AFONSO