UN General Assembly
2013

most sophisticated in the region. The health-care sector also works closely with United Nations specialized agencies in organizing ongoing vaccination campaigns for children under 5 years of age. As with most developing countries, our country depends on imports of basic goods from the global market, which weighs heavily on our balance sheets, especially since the prices of such products are subject to fluctuations in the world market. Aware of that, our Government has pursued an economic and financial policy that would alleviate the effects generated from outside. Our agricultural sector has therefore been able, thanks to the policy, to fulfil 60 per cent of the country’s rice needs and 37 per cent of its need for other grains. Wheat crops, which were recently introduced, have begun to produce. In that context, a sugar-cane cultivation project was launched to make sugar available locally. Generally, our Government has worked tirelessly in all sectors to ensure that its citizens can live in dignity. A free-trade zone has been created in Nouadhibou — the economic capital of the country and the third-largest city in