The Prime Minister, Hon Peter O’Neill CMG MP, is attending the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Conference is taking place in Apia, Samoa.
· The conference is taking place from 1 to 4 September 2014. The Prime Minister is scheduled to address the conference on 1 September. · The theme of the Conference is “The Sustainable Development of SIDS through Genuine and Durable Partnerships.” · The Conference’s main objective is to consider, assess and endorse the draft SIDS Accelerated Modalities Of Action pathway (S.A.M.O.A) which was endorsed by the United Nations Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) in July this year. · The S.A.M.O.A. outcome document: o Identifies key common and shared sustainable development priority issues for SIDS; o Highlights areas that need to be strengthened, including implementation gaps and institutional and structural weaknesses as well as effective development partnership building at all levels in pursuit of the sustainable development goals attainment; o Provides agreed action-oriented implementation mechanisms to further enhance achievement of sustainable development goals for the respective SIDS and; o Ensures that SIDS special needs for sustainable development forms an integral part of the Post-2015 development agenda. · The Conference will be hosted and Chaired by Samoan Prime Minister Hon. Tuilaepa Sailele Lupesoliai Malielegaoi. · The primary aim of the S.A.M.O.A Pathway is to ensure that the challenges confronted by SIDS globally and partnerships with donors are durable and adequately addressed. · The S.A.M.O.A further reaffirms past commitments, especially those made in the Barbados Programme of Action (BPoA) and Mauritius Strategy of Implementation (MSI). Comments are closed.
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