Implementation of the Outcome of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States

A/RES/53/189AView PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 94c Implementation of the outcome of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, published in 1999.

What other versions does this mandate have?

6 versions · 1996–2000

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/54/224

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2000	A/RES/54/224	Implementation of the outcome of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States	624	12%Compare
1999	A/RES/53/189B	Implementation of the outcome of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States	105	9%Compare
1999	A/RES/53/189A	Implementation of the outcome of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States	1,072	23%Compare
1998	A/RES/52/202	Implementation of the outcome of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States	1,270	23%Compare
1997	A/RES/51/183	Implementation of the outcome of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States	1,416	40%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

10 subjects

Civil Society Development Assistance Non-Governmental Organizations Programme Implementation Programmes of Action Project Preparation Sea Level Small Island Developing States Sustainable Development Trust Funds

What’s in this document?

14 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General⁷ on plans and projects for the sustainable development of small island developing States implemented, under implementation or envisaged for the period 1999–2003 by bilateral donors, United Nations organizations and regional and non-United Nations international organizations, and welcomes the action taken by small island developing States and the international donor community in implementing plans and projects for the sustainable development of small island developing States;

⁷A/53/358.

Also takes note of the report of the Secretary-General⁸ on the development of a vulnerability index for small island developing States, urges that the progress made in the development and compilation of a vulnerability index for small island developing States be continued, and encourages all the relevant organizations engaged in the process of refining the vulnerability index to work collaboratively;

⁸A/53/65–E/1998/5.

Welcomes the action taken by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme, with respect to the donors conference to be held from 24 to 26 February 1999 between representatives of small island developing States and prospective bilateral and multilateral donors, and urges the parties concerned to facilitate project preparation and development;

Encourages all small island developing States and prospective bilateral and multilateral donors to participate in the donors conference as a means of pursuing the development objectives of small island developing States;

Welcomes the actions taken by Governments, regional commissions and organizations, organizations of the United Nations system, intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations in support of activities relating to the outcome of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States;

Urges small island developing States to continue preparations for the seventh session of the Commission on Sustainable Development and the special session of the General Assembly in September 1999 for the review and appraisal of the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, and urges the international community, organizations of the United Nations system and intergovernmental bodies to continue to assist in this regard;

Calls for the participation of associate members of regional economic commissions in the special session, subject to the rules of procedure of the General Assembly, and in the preparatory process thereof, in the same capacity of observer that held for their participation in the 1994 Global Conference;

Stresses the need for the effective participation of actors of civil society, particularly non-governmental organizations, in preparation for the special session, as well as the need to ensure appropriate arrangements, taking into account the practice and experience gained at the Global Conference, for their substantive contributions to and active involvement in the preparatory meetings and the special session, and in that context invites the President of the General Assembly, in consultation with Member States, to propose to Member States appropriate modalities for their effective involvement in the special session;

Also stresses the importance of the full and effective participation of small island developing States in the special session and in the seventh session of the Commission on Sustainable Development as the preparatory body for the special session, invites Governments to make timely and voluntary contributions for that purpose to the Trust Fund for Support of the Work of the Commission on Sustainable Development, and in this context requests the Secretary-General to assist small island developing States by applying the modalities for such assistance used for their participation in the Global Conference;

Reiterates the urgency of international community support of adaptation efforts by small island developing States to cope with the threat of sea-level rise experienced as a consequence of climate change;

Welcomes the activities undertaken by the Global Environment Facility, and invites it, in accordance with the relevant decisions of its Council and the relevant provisions of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change⁹ and the Convention on Biological Diversity,¹⁰ to support further the objectives of the Programme of Action;

⁹A/AC.237/18 (Part II)/Add.1 and Corr.1, annex I.

¹⁰See United Nations Environment Programme, Convention on Biological Diversity (Environmental Law and Institution Programme Activity Centre), June 1992.

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Commission on Sustainable Development at its seventh session, through the existing mechanism, and to the General Assembly at its special session for the review and appraisal of the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, a report on the donors conference;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fourth session, under the item entitled “Environment and sustainable development”, the sub-item entitled “Implementation of the outcome of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States”;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-fifth session a report on actions taken to implement the present resolution and the recommendations emanating from the special session for the review and appraisal of the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States.

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