A/RES/48/193 Page 2 mindful of the important contribution that their successful accomplishment could make to the promotion of sustainable and environmentally sound development with respect to small island developing States, Stressing that, because the development options of small island developing States are limited, there are special challenges to planning for and implementing sustainable development, and that small island developing States will be constrained in meeting those challenges without the cooperation and assistance of the international community, Also stressing the need for the intergovernmental preparatory process for the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States to be completed before the Conference itself, 1. Takes note of the report of the Preparatory Committee for the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States on its organizational and first sessions; 3/ 2. Decides to convene the first Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States in Barbados from 25 April to 6 May 1994, including a high-level segment on 5 and 6 May; 3. Urges once again that representation at the Conference be at the highest possible level; 4. Decides to convene one day of pre-Conference consultations at the venue of the Conference on 24 April 1994; 5. Also decides that the first session of the Preparatory Committee shall be resumed in New York for a period of five working days, from 7 to 11 March 1994, to complete the preparatory work assigned to it in paragraph 11 of resolution 47/189, including the draft programme of action for the sustainable development of small island developing States contained in annex III to the report of the Preparatory Committee, 3/ and that adequate facilities shall be made available for this purpose within the approved budget limit set for the biennium 1994-1995; 6. Endorses Preparatory Committee decisions 1 4/ and 4 5/ concerning the participation of associate members of regional commissions and of non-governmental organizations, including major groups, in the Conference and its preparatory process; 7. Also endorses Preparatory Committee decisions 3 5/ and 13 6/and decides to transmit the provisional rules of procedure and the provisional agenda to the Conference for adoption; __________ 3/ A/48/36. 4/ Ibid., part one, sect. V. 5/ Ibid., sect. VI. 6/ Ibid., part two, sect. VIII. /...