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CA reaffirms support for development of Africa

UNB, New York
Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed on Monday reiterated the Bangladesh's firm commitment to further strengthening its support and cooperation for the development of Africa.
The head of the caretaker government made the remarks while intervening the second high lex-el roundtable meeting on 'Africa's Development Needs: State of Implementation of Various Commitments. Challenegs and the Way Forward'
The roundtable was held at the ECOSOC Conference Hall at the UN Heqadquatcrs, which was preceded by high level plenary meeting on the same theme in the morning.
President of Rwanda Paul Kagame and Prcsdient of Finland Jarja Halonen co-chaired the roundtable attended by heads of
government and state of various countries.
President of Mozambique, president of Madagascar, US secretary of state and executive secretary of ECA also spoke at the roundtable.
Earlier, the CA attended the High Level Plenary Meeting, at the UN General Assembly Hall, on the Theme Africa's Development Needs: State of Implementation of Various commitments, challenges and thewayforward'.
Fakhruddin said: "Within the framework of South-South cooperation. countries like Bangladesh can meaningfully contribute to Africa's sustainable development.
"Over the years, Bangladesh has successfully pioneered a number of innova live ideas to development like micro credit, non-formal education and women empowerment."
He said Bangladesh is willing to
share her Green Revolution' experiences with the fellow LDCs especially those in Africa. "We must remain comrades in our quest for peace, development and prosperity."
He said micro credit has now been replicated in around 100 countries, including many in Africa.
As a member of the organisational committee of the Peacebuilding Commission, he said Bangladesh is actively engaged in supporting the ongoing development efforts in Burundi and Sierra
He said the development partners and the international community should also take steps to help Africa integrate into the global economy through foreign direct investment.
"We are deeply concerned that since 2005 the ODA-GN1 ratio for developed countries has declined
from 0.33 percent to0.28 percent.
It falls far short of the G-8 Gleneagles pledge in 2005 to double aid to Africa," he told the roundtable.
Fakhruddin said Bangladesh has been an active and ardent proponent of peace and development for Africa. There has hardly been a UN Peacekeeping mission in Africa in the last two and half decades in which Bangladesh did not participate.
Currently around 10,000 Bangladeshis are working in 12 UN peacekeeping missions, he said.
Bangladesh sends its peacekeepers even to the highest risk areas. “We do so in line with our deep commitment to the UN charter and in the spirit of solidarity with our African brethren," he said.
Foreign Adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury and Permanent Representative to UN Ismat Jahan also attened the roundtable.