United Nations
A/RES/61/196
General Assembly
Distr.: General
9 February 2007
Sixty-first session
Agenda item 53 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2006
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/61/422/Add.2)]
61/196. 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
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the Declaration of Barbados 1 and the Programme of Action for the
Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, 2 adopted by the Global
Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, and
recalling its resolution 49/122 of 19 December 1994 on the Global Conference,
Reaffirming also the Mauritius Declaration 3 and the Mauritius Strategy for the
Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development
of Small Island Developing States (“Mauritius Strategy for Implementation”), 4
adopted by the International Meeting to Review the Implementation of the
Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing
States on 14 January 2005, and recalling its resolutions 59/311 of 14 July 2005 and
60/194 of 22 December 2005,
Recalling the 2005 World Summit Outcome, 5
Welcoming the decision taken by the Commission on Sustainable Development
at its thirteenth session 6 to devote one day of its review sessions to the review of the
implementation of the Mauritius Strategy for Implementation, focusing on that
year’s thematic cluster, as well as on any new developments in the sustainable
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1
Report of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States,
Bridgetown, Barbados, 25 April-6 May 1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.94.I.18 and
corrigenda), chap. I, resolution 1, annex I.
2
Ibid., annex II.
3
Report of the International Meeting to Review the Implementation of the Programme of Action for the
Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, Port Louis, Mauritius, 10-14 January 2005
(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.05.II.A.4 and corrigendum), chap. I, resolution 1, annex I.
4
Ibid., annex II.
5
See resolution 60/1.
6
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 9 (E/2005/29),
resolution 13/1.
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