International Year of Small Island Developing States

Invites the Secretary-General, in consultation with relevant organizations within the United Nations system, and mindful of the provisions of the annex to Economic and Social Council resolution 1980/67, to facilitate the implementation of the Year, and stresses that the costs of all activities that may arise from the implementation of the present resolution above and beyond activities currently within their mandates should be met through voluntary contributions;

Encourages all Member States, the United Nations system and all other stakeholders to take advantage of the Year to promote actions at all levels, including through international, regional and subregional cooperation, as appropriate, aimed at the achievement of sustainable development of small island developing States;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its seventieth session, in his annual report on the follow-up to and implementation of the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States,4 on the implementation of the present resolution, and, inter alia, to elaborate in that report on the evaluation of the Year, including its financial aspects.