President Lazarus Chakwera has described his trip to United States of America as a timely opportunity to utilise Malawi’s graduation from the Least Developed Country (LDC) to developed one.

The Malawi leader said this at Kamuzu International Airport in Lilongwe upon his departure to the United States of America (USA) to participate in the first part of the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5).

According to Chakwera, his attendance as Chairperson for the LCDs will provide an opportunity for countries like Malawi on what they can do to develop.

“The conference is looking at phase one which looks at the programme of action that should be adopted by these nations that we are part of,” Chakwera said.

“The idea is to be able to follow particular programme so that nations can graduate from this group to the next and we trust that Malawi can do that.”

LDC is made up of 46 countries and majority of them are from Africa.

The conference will take place from 15 to 19 March 2022.

The conference will also see the launching of Doha Programme of Action for LCDs on 17 March, 2022, at the UN Headquarters in New York.