Turkmenistan, Aug 7: Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli said sustainable infrastructures, robust connectivity, and seamless transit are essential pillars of growth, resilience, and hope in the landlocked developing countries (LLDCs). It is further reinforced by the Awaza Program of Action, he added.
PM Oli said it while addressing a High-Level Thematic Roundtable on ‘Building sustainable infrastructure, strengthening connectivity, and promoting the unfettered transit systems for landlocked developing countries’ in Awaza, Turkmenistan, today.
According to him, they are lifeline. Indeed, they form the backbone of economic transformation, and they are essential for our competitiveness, according to him.
“As we enter the next decade of action, let us renew our collective determination to connect LLDCs — physically, digitally and economically— to the global opportunities. Let us focus on infrastructure, connectivity, and transit as urgent imperatives for equity, inclusion, and shared progress,” the PM said.
The PM further viewed our progress continues to be hindered by a lack of sea access, remoteness from global markets, high trade costs, delayed transit, limited connectivity, and fragile infrastructure. This is the best forum to discuss these challenges and its innovative solutions, reiterated.
“To overcome these structural challenges and vulnerabilities, we must invest in integrated and climate-resilient infrastructure that connects regions. We must harness digital technologies to unlock new opportunities. We must create seamless transit systems that are reliable, efficient, and predictable. We need to simplify, harmonize and modernize customs procedures,” the PM explained.
According to him, it is time to deliver on the promise and build a future where no states are left behind.
Nepal’s priority on seamless transit
On the occasion, the Head of the government took time to share Nepal’s ambition of ‘Prosperous Nepal and Happy Nepali. In order to fulfill this aspiration, Nepal has prioritized sustainable infrastructure, improved connectivity, and seamless transit systems for durable and accelerated economic growth.
He informed the world that Nepal is actively expanding and reinforcing cross-border linkages to ensure smooth and uninterrupted transit and trade. Nepal is committed to deepening partnership with its neighboring countries and beyond in the spirit of economic cooperation, regional integration and shared progress.
