In a speech during the opening session of the High-Level Ministerial Conference on the PRI, Ms. Ojeda thanked Morocco for its initiative to host this event which is part of the Moroccan presidency of the Group friends of the PRI that he has been supporting since 2023.
She also insisted on the importance of promoting access to concessional financing, in order to address the challenges facing PRIs, noting the imperative to turn to multidimensional approaches based on economic pillars, social and environmental aspects of sustainable development.
In this context, the UN official called for financing climate adaptation to be made a priority so that the PRI can meet the challenges posed in particular by global warming.
“If financing remains a priority, we must also seek to strengthen the impact and effectiveness of South-South and triangular cooperation (CSST), relying on the solidarity of countries and the expertise of populations,” she added.
The President of ECOSOC, in this sense, noted that several MICs are facing increasing pressures on the balance of payments, high debt costs as well as major and lasting constraints, including climate change and decline in biodiversity, in addition to high levels of poverty.
Against the backdrop of a current international financial architecture incapable of meeting the needs of MICs, it is necessary to resort to adapted measures and solutions to effectively capture the diversity and experience of the development context, she said. continued.
The High-Level Ministerial Conference on Middle-Income Countries, which aims to identify new innovative approaches to give new impetus to cooperation in favor of middle-income countries, includes the participation of the Deputy Secretary-General of the Nations United, Amina J. Mohammed.
Taking part in this Conference in particular are the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration of Cape Verde, Rui Alberto De Figueiredo Soares, the Comorian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Dhoihir Dhoulkamal, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Eswatini, Pholile Shakantu, and the Gabonese Minister of Foreign Affairs, responsible for sub-regional integration and Gabonese abroad, Régis Onanga Ndiaye.
They are also the Minister to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Senegalese Abroad, in charge of Senegalese Abroad, Annette Seck, the Minister Delegate to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Integration and Ivorians Abroad, in charge of African Integration and Ivorians Abroad, Wautabouna Ouattara, and the Minister Delegate to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Mauritanians of the Foreigner, in charge of Mauritanians Abroad, Mohamed Yahya Saaid.