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| | UNIDO - May Feature Story: LDC III One Year Later (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | LDC III, the Third United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries, the first UN conference to be hosted by the European Union, was held one year ago (14 - 20 May, 2001) at the European Parliament in Brussels. |
 | | LDC III concluded with the adoption of the Brussels Declaration, in which 193 participating governments committed themselves to the eradication of poverty in the world's poorest countries and to the improvement of the quality of lives of the more than 600 million people living in them. |
 | | Another LDC III energy 'deliverable", the UNIDO/ UN Development Programme (UNDP) regional Multi- functional Platform Programme, offering rural women income-generating opportunities, management experience and, as they become more economically independent, an increase in their social status, is most advanced in Mali, the country where the platform concept was developed. |
| www.unido.org /en/doc/5126 (1848 words) |
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