Examples of using Ldcs in English and their translations into Czech
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Progress in the LDCs is interconnected with the quality and coherence of development partner policies.
I am slowly beginning to think that saying that we hope the LDCs will become more resistant to shocks is a cynical approach.
Prioritising LDCs is a necessity in our common endeavour to reach the Millennium Development Goals MDGs.
The European Union has always led the international community's efforts to support the LDCs, and is their largest donor.
Its effects have affected LDCs to a large extent and caused a further deepening of the problems occurring there.
I am calling on you to take specific measures to address the problems andto make concrete commitments to provide the LDCs with real help.
Since then, the number of LDCs has increased twofold, and only three(Botswana, Maldives and Cape Verde) have been able to graduate from the group.
This outcome also contains important decisions to promote the integration of developing countries,especially LDCs, into the world trading system.
A long-term commitment through a renewed partnership with LDCs containing suitable measures is fundamental in a rapidly changing world.
Some LDCs have achieved good economic growth and progress in development during the last decade, yet we recognise that overall, progress has been uneven.
In addition to the existing challenges, the situation in the LDCs has been exacerbated by the recent global financial, food, climate change and energy crises.
This is obviously much less advantageous than the system that they operate at present,which is the equivalent system for least-developed countries(LDCs), in other words, Everything But Arms.
The call on the developed andadvanced developing countries to offer LDCs 100% duty-free, quota-free market access, including to the internal market, is welcome.
The LDCs have primary responsibility for their own development, and assistance by the donor community ought to be based on the initiative and full ownership of the recipient countries.
These objectives will continue to guide the European Union's discussions with the LDCs throughout the preparatory process and during the conference itself.
I would stress the need to give priority to food security, agriculture, infrastructure, capacity building, inclusive economic growth, access to technologies and human and social development in the LDCs.
The European Union also stresses the interdependence of overall progress in the LDCs with the improvement of good governance, democracy, human rights and gender equality.
I agree with Commissioner Füle's opinion concerning the relevance of keeping to our commitments in the European Union andalso his comments concerning the importance of increasing the possibility of trade between LDCs and the European Union.
LDC-IV needs to support concrete measures that help to find solutions to the LDCs' development needs, to combat poverty, and to ensure a decent income and existence.
While the EU's new Member States, excluding Malta and Cyprus, provide unique expertise for the application and targeting of development policy in our neighbour countries to the East,we must actively encourage their involvement with Sub-Saharan Africa and other LDCs.
The EU needs to follow a common position towards the least developed countries(LDCs), andshould not allow economic and financial crises to compromise the development of partnerships with the LDCs.
We have seen, of course, that prices have risen very sharply and that these prices naturally offer entirely new income opportunities for our own farmers in countries like France, Britain and, above all, the new Member States, and they would also create great income prospects elsewhere,especially in the LDCs, the poorest of the poor countries.
As one of the authors of the resolution on the Fourth United Nations conference onthe least developed countries(LDCs), I believe that it is absolutely crucial for the European Parliament to demonstrate an unwavering commitment to the inhabitants of the LDCs.
We should renew our commitment to LDCs and show that in 10 years, we have learned the lessons of the previous period and are in a position to provide effective, quality support that will enable us to meet our objectives, not in 2021 but in 2015, by fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals.
Therefore, this UN conference should be result-oriented, on the basis of clear indicators andthe objective of reducing the number of LDCs by half by 2020, combined with efficient and transparent monitoring and follow-up mechanisms.
The increase in the number ofstates falling into that category(since 1971, the number of LDCs has risen from 25 to 48) requires the international community to redouble its efforts to meet the objective of halving the number of LDCs by 2020.
LDC-IV should be result-oriented, on the basis of clear indicators andthe objective of reducing the number of LDCs by half by 2020, combined with efficient and transparent monitoring and follow-up mechanisms.
And yet it is by working towards a better distribution of wealth,supporting LDCs on the path to growth and democracy, and combating the frenzied speculation on commodity prices, that these extremely vulnerable countries will be able to escape the vicious circle of poverty.
Indeed, the fight against tropical deforestation is the largest immediate mitigation challenge for the LDCs, and they can be beneficiaries, through mechanisms such as reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation schemes, of its international financing.
Given that all countries have responsibilities for supporting the least developed countries(LDCs), in order to meet the Millennium Development Goals, I agree with the proposals included in this joint motion for a resolution, andI would like to see the goal of halving the number of LDCs by 2020 achieved.