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

A/RES/54/224View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 100f Implementation of the outcome of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, published in 2000.

What other versions does this mandate have?

6 versions · 1996–2000

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?

8 subjects

Declarations Indexes Least Developed Countries Private Sector Programme Implementation Small Island Developing States Socioeconomic Indicators Sustainable Development

What’s in this document?

11 operative paragraphs

Reiterates the significance of the effective implementation of the Declaration1 and review document1 adopted at the twenty-second special session of the General Assembly;

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit the Declaration and review document to the various organs of the United Nations system and the regional commissions and organizations, taking into account the areas identified in the review document for priority action, and urges them to take the action necessary for further implementation and effective follow-up;

Calls upon Governments, the regional commissions and organizations and other intergovernmental organizations to support the efforts of the small island developing States, taking into account those areas identified in the review document for priority action, and urges them to take the action necessary for the further implementation of and effective follow-up to the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States;2

Calls upon all stakeholders, in particular local communities, non-governmental organizations and the private sector, to take the action necessary for the further implementation of and effective follow-up to the Programme of Action;

Emphasizes the need for the provision of resources for the further implementation of the Programme of Action;

Urges all relevant organizations to finalize, preferably before the end of 2000, the work on the development of a vulnerability index, in particular for the small island developing States, which would assist in defining the vulnerability of those States and in identifying the challenges to their sustainable development, for consideration by the Economic and Social Council and the General Assembly at the appropriate time;

Welcomes the acknowledgement by the Committee for Development Policy that the concept of vulnerability should be included explicitly in the identification criteria for the least developed countries,⁵ and notes the ongoing discussions on the new criteria proposed by the Committee;

⁵See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1999, Supplement No. 13 (E/1999/33), chap. I.C.

Calls upon the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development to give substantive consideration in its work to the Declaration and review document, including in its preparations for its tenth session;

Invites the Commission on Sustainable Development to consider in its work programme, as appropriate, matters relating to the further implementation of the Programme of Action, bearing in mind the outcome of the twenty-second special session of the General Assembly;⁶

⁶See Official Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-second Special Session, Supplement No. 3 (A/S-22/9/Rev.1).

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fifth session, under the item entitled “Environment and sustainable development”, a sub-item entitled “Further implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States”;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to it at its fifty-fifth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution.

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