Awaza: Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli emphasized that sustainable infrastructures, robust connectivity, and seamless transit are crucial elements for the growth, resilience, and hope in landlocked developing countries (LLDCs). He reiterated this point while addressing a High-Level Thematic Roundtable on ‘Building sustainable infrastructure, strengthening connectivity, and promoting unfettered transit systems for landlocked developing countries’ in Awaza, Turkmenistan.
According to National News Agency Nepal, PM Oli stated that these elements are the lifeline and backbone of economic transformation, essential for competitiveness. He urged a renewed collective determination to connect LLDCs physically, digitally, and economically to global opportunities. The focus should be on infrastructure, connectivity, and transit as urgent imperatives for equity, inclusion, and shared progress.
PM Oli highlighted the ongoing hindrances faced by LLDCs, such as lack of sea access, remoteness from global markets, high trade costs, delayed transit, limited connectivity, and fragile infrastructure. He stressed the importance of investing in integrated and climate-resilient infrastructure to connect regions, harnessing digital technologies to unlock new opportunities, and creating seamless transit systems that are reliable, efficient, and predictable. Simplifying, harmonizing, and modernizing customs procedures are also necessary steps.
During the event, PM Oli shared Nepal’s ambition of ‘Prosperous Nepal and Happy Nepali,’ which prioritizes sustainable infrastructure, improved connectivity, and seamless transit systems for durable and accelerated economic growth. He informed that Nepal is actively working to expand and reinforce cross-border linkages to ensure smooth and uninterrupted transit and trade. The country is committed to deepening partnerships with neighboring countries and beyond, in the spirit of economic cooperation, regional integration, and shared progress.