UN General Assembly
2023

We therefore call for an enhanced level of international support in the form of development assistance, foreign direct investment, export promotion, special drawing rights allocation, technology transfer and technical assistance. Nepal welcomes the Secretary- General’s call for an increase in SDG financing by $500 billion per year. As the current Chair of the Global Coordination Bureau of the LDCs. we remain actively engaged in collaboration with our fellow LDCs in all relevant forums, including in the United Nations system, to protect and promote our collective interests. We stress the need to mainstream the Doha Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries into all important United Nations processes and development systems and the development cooperation frameworks of our partners. We call for a fair and equitable international trading regime that benefits the LDCs. Coordinated policies aimed at debt relief, debt restructuring and debt swap, as envisaged by the Doha Programme of Action, must be translated into reality. Climate change has assumed a crisis proportion, and the clock is ticking. Our inaction or little action will