The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Dhaka

Foreign Adviser Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury yesterday said that Bangladesh would press for a Global Food Security Compact asking UN to initiate informational cooperation for expanding food availability, at the forthcoming UNCTAD XII Conference in Accra, Ghana, next week.

The Foreign Adviser was sharing views on the upcoming conference with the media at his office here.

He observed that the recent worldwide shortage in grain supply is significant issue for the United Nations to focus on as a priority. New Green Revolutions should be inspired through more research and development on food, production and distribution of high-yielding seed varieties, and expanding acreage in agriculture, should constitute elements of this 'thrust- programme'.

"Bangladesh will press for this, along with a package of other ideas, as Chairman of the Group of Least Developed Countries in order to mainstream them in the global economy, at Accra conference," he told the newsmen.

The UNCTAD Conference, an event that takes place every four years, will begin on April 20. On April 19, there will be a Ministerial Conference of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to finalise the LDC position in that Conference.