Trade and Development Board 68th session

21 June – 2 July 2021

Room XVII, Palais des Nations

Geneva, Switzerland

High-level Segment:

Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures: Preparatory meeting on the road to UNCTAD 15 and LDC5:

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Trade and Development
LDCs Priorities for the Road to LDC5

General debate

The general debate is expected to take place during the first week of the sixty-eighth session of the Board. The texts of statements that are remitted to the secretariat will be reproduced and uploaded on the UNCTAD website in the language version(s) in which they are received.

In accordance with rule 39 of the rules of procedure of the Trade and Development Board, speakers may be requested to limit their interventions. Further details on time limits will be provided in due course and in the programme of the Trade and Development Board.

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Report of the Trade and Development Board on its sixty-eighth session

Held at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, from 21 June to 2 July 2021

(TD/B/68/3) - 21 Jul 2021

Provisional agenda and annotations

(TD/B/68/1) - 12 Apr 2021

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