Caretaker Environment Minister Nasser Yassin and Lebanese Ambassador to Qatar Farah Berri participated in the opening of the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, which is being organized in its current session in Doha, under the chairmanship of the Emir of the State of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres. The conference will discuss the economic, social and environmental challenges faced by the least developed countries, especially the effects of the Corona epidemic, climate change and the energy crisis on these countries. Participants propose new ideas to obtain pledges from the industrialized countries and international financing institutions to support the least developed countries in facing their development challenges. During his sideline meetings, Yassin stressed “the necessity of solidarity with Lebanon and supporting it in facing its multiple crises and taking on a joint international responsibility for hosting the largest number of refugees in proportion to its population in the world who live in areas subject to great economic, social and environmental pressures, similar to the reality of the least developed countries.”

Source: National News Agency – Lebanon