Subregional preparations for the 2004 international meeting that will undertake a full and comprehensive review of the implementation of the SIDS POA to ensure the most effective participation of Caribbean SIDS

摘要

In Part XV (Implementation Monitoring and Review);, of the Programme of Action of SmallIsland Developing States (SIDS POA);, which was adopted at the United Nations GlobalConference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (UNGCSIDS);, 26April- 6 May 1994, in its paragraph 117, it is provided that the Commission on SustainableDevelopment (CSD); should, inter alia:Carry out an initial review of the progress achieved and steps taken to implement theProgramme of Action, to be undertaken by the Commission on Sustainable Development in 1996in accordance with its Multi-Year Thematic Programme of Work. Furthermore, in 1997, whenthe Commission will carry out the overall review of Agenda 21 with a view to preparing forthe 1997 special session of the General Assembly, the Commission should recommend specificmodalities for the full review of the Programme of Action in 1999. That full review wouldinclude the question of the convening of a second global conference in accordance withchapter 17, Section G of Agenda 21.At the twenty-second special session which convened on 27-28 September 1999 toundertake a "review and appraisal of the implementation of the Programme of Actionfor the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States", it wasrecommended, inter alia, that:"Although periodic reviews of certain aspects of the Programme of Action areenvisaged within the context of the work of the Commission on Sustainable Development, afull and comprehensive review of these decisions and the implementation of the Programmeof Action would be useful and required in 2004."In the Plan of Implementation adopted at the World Summit on Sustainable Development(WSSD);, which convened in Johannesburg, South Africa, over the period, 26 August-4Septemeber 2002, the relevant recommendation was as follows:"Undertake a full and comprehensive review of the implementation of the BarbadosProgramme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States in2004, in accordance with the provisions set forth in General Assembly resolution S-22/2,and in this context requests the General Assembly at its fifty-seventh session to considerconvening an international meeting for the sustainable development of small islanddeveloping States."