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Wednesday, 13 February 2008

Staff Reporter

Bangladesh urged developed nations on Tuesday to give market access benefit to all least developed countries, a foreign ministry statement said.

Fakhruddin Ahmed, head of the interim government of Bangladesh, current chair of the Least Developed Countries, made the call in a message to leaders of the Group of Eight industrialised nations.

He also demanded special and differential treatment for LDCs pending agreements on the Doha Round of talks of the World Trade Organisation.

"The message was intended to sensitize the global economic leadership to the problems confronted by the least developed countries," Foreign Adviser (minister) Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury told reporters.

The message, sent ahead of a G8 summit in Japan in July, "also underscored the issue of global warming and climate change due to gas emission."

The G8 summit in Hokkaido will bring together the leaders of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Russia as well as Japan.
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