{"id":57600,"date":"2026-10-30T16:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=57600"},"modified":"2026-10-30T16:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:09:21","slug":"un-extends-ldc-graduation-timeframe-for-nepal-and-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/un-extends-ldc-graduation-timeframe-for-nepal-and-bangladesh\/","title":{"rendered":"UN extends LDC graduation timeframe for Nepal and Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Oct 30: The United Nations General Assembly has unanimously passed a proposal to extend the preparation period necessary for Nepal and Bangladesh to graduate from the least developed country (LDCs) status until November 24, 2029.<\/p>\n<p>The UN&#8217;s 81st General Assembly meeting on Thursday made this decision, according to the Permanent Mission of Nepal to the United Nations, New York.<\/p>\n<p>With this, Nepal now has extra time to carry out necessary structural and institutional reforms more effectively before being upgraded from the list of least developed countries.<\/p>\n<p>Nepal has expressed its commitment to use this period for increasing production capacity, strengthening institutions, and pursuing economic and social transformation.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that the additional time received from the UN General Assembly will help Nepal easily, sustainably, and irreversibly achieve the goal of graduating from the LDC status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Oct 30: The United Nations General Assembly has unanimously passed a proposal to extend the preparation period necessary for Nepal and Bangladesh to graduate from the least developed country (LDCs) status until November 24, 2029. The UN&#8217;s 81st General Assembly meeting on Thursday made this decision, according to the Permanent Mission of Nepal to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57602,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57600\/revisions\/57602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}