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Background The General Assembly, in its resolution 61/212, decided to hold a midterm review meeting of the Almaty Programme of Action in 2008. The meeting was to be preceded by regional and substantive preparations in a most effective, well-structured and broad participatory manner. Also, intergovernmental mechanisms at the global and regional levels, including those of United Nations regional commissions, as well as relevant substantive material and statistical data, were to be effectively utilized in the review process. The UN-OHRLLS was requested by the General Assembly to coordinate the preparatory process. The United Nations system organizations, including the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the United Nations Development Programme, the regional commissions and relevant international and regional organizations were also requested, within their respective mandates, to provide necessary support to the review process. In its resolution 62/204, the General Assembly decided to hold two days of high-level plenary meetings devoted to the midterm review of the Almaty Programme of Action during its sixty-third session in The preparatory process for the Almaty Programme midterm review was launched in early 2007 by UN-OHRLLS with the objective to provide the international community with a unique opportunity to assess the progress made in establishing efficient transit transport systems in the landlocked regions around the world and agree on what needs to be done to further galvanize global partnerships to assist landlocked and transit developing countries to effectively implement the Almaty Programme of Action.
THE PREPARATORY PROCESS 2007/08 Based on an organizational framework for the midterm review, two substantive/thematic meetings were organized in 2007 with a view to providing the main substantive inputs to the midterm review. These two meetings addressed the physical and non-physical aspects of the transit trade of landlocked developing countries, namely:
(1) transit transport infrastructure development –
(2) international trade and trade facilitation –
Regional reviews were conducted during the first half of 2008 in Asia/Europe, Africa and
In addition, the UN-OHRLLS, in strict collaboration with partner organizations, organized a number of pre-conference events on specific themes.
· Euro-Asian Transport Links Ministerial Meeting, UNECE and UNESCAP, 19-21 February 2008,
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Outcome document
Declaration of the high-level meeting on the midterm review A/RES/63/2 | EN | FR | AR | CH | RU | SP |
Previous GA Resolutions
SG Reports
Other Documents
Midterm Review Newsletter (2007)
Improving Trade and Transport for the Landlocked Developing Countries (2008, World Bank)
Meetings
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