Mr. Harri Holkeri

Your Excellency , Mr. Harri Holkeri , the President of the General Assembly ,

Assembly President Harri Holkeri of Finland included Karen Kaplan of the San Francisco-based International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Group.

Assembly President Harri Holkeri also said that the primary responsibility in meeting those targets lay with the LDC governments themselves.The Administrator of the UNDP, speaking as convenor of the United Nations Development Group, emphasised the importance which the entire UN system attached to working together to make the conference a concrete and practical expression of the system's priority attention to reducing poverty in these, the poorest countries.A representative of the NGOs, in New York to attend a pre-Conference parallel meeting sponsored by the European Union, urged the Conference to call for the total cancellation of all LDC debt and for the granting by developed countries of duty-free market access for all LDC exports.

The Committee will next meet informally in New York, from 26 to 30 March, followed by its third and final formal meeting, also in New York, from 2 to 6 April.

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