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 A/RES/67/207 7. Calls for continued and enhanced efforts to assist small island developing States in implementing the Barbados Programme of Action and the Mauritius Strategy and for a strengthening of United Nations system support to small island developing States, in keeping with the multiple ongoing and emerging challenges faced by those States in achieving sustainable development; Stresses the importance of continued substantive consideration of the 8. follow-up to and implementation of the Mauritius Strategy; 9. Decides to convene in 2013 a regional preparatory meeting in each of the three regions of small island developing States, 12 as well as an interregional preparatory meeting for all small island developing States, to identify and develop input for the Conference, while maximizing coherence and complementarity with respect to other preparatory work; 10. Also decides that the Conference will result in a concise, focused, forward-looking and action-oriented political document; 11. Further decides that the national, regional, interregional and substantive preparations should be carried out in a most effective, well-structured and broad participatory manner and that, for this purpose, the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat, through its Small Island Developing States Unit, the Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States and the relevant organizations of the United Nations system, including the regional commissions, within their respective mandates and available resources, should provide the necessary support to the Conference and its preparatory process; 12. Invites the President of the General Assembly to launch, at the end of 2013, the work of the intergovernmental preparatory process with respect to considering the governance structure as well as other organizational matters related to the work of the preparatory committee, and to convene the first meeting of the preparatory committee early in 2014; 13. Decides to consider further at its sixty-eighth session, before the end of 2013, the modalities and format of the Conference and how it can be organized in the most efficient and effective manner; 14. Agrees that the Conference will be convened at the highest possible level and will include a high-level segment; 15. Requests the Secretary-General to provide all appropriate support to the work of the preparatory process of the Conference and to the Conference itself and to ensure inter-agency cooperation and effective participation and coherence within the United Nations system, as well as the efficient use of resources, so that the objectives of the Conference can be addressed; 16. Decides that the Conference and its preparatory committee shall be open to all States Members of the United Nations or members of specialized agencies or of the International Atomic Energy Agency, that the rules of procedure of the functional commissions of the Economic and Social Council, as well as the supplementary arrangements established for the Commission on Sustainable Development by the Council in its decisions 1993/215 of 12 February 1993 and 1995/201 of 8 February 1995, shall apply to the meetings of the preparatory _______________ 12 4/5 Atlantic, Indian Ocean and South China Sea; Caribbean; and Pacific.