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On 25th January 2020, At _______ session of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) PM Imran Khan suggests further debt relief for stressed countries.
ASixth
BThird
CFourth
DFifth
Correct answer
C. Fourth
Explanation
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday called for further debt relief for stressed countries amid a surge in the coronavirus pandemic around the world and the detection of the new Covid-19 variants, saying “much more needed to be done” to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs) by the 2030 target. Addressing the fourth session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), he observed that developing countries were “trapped between recovering from the pandemic and meeting their debt servicing obligations”.