A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/51/183 11 February 1997 Fifty-first session Agenda item 97 (d) RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Second Committee (A/51/605/Add.4)] 51/183. Implementation of the outcome of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 49/100 and 49/122 of 19 December 1994 and 50/116 of 20 December 1995, on or related to the implementation of the outcome of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, and reaffirming Commission on Sustainable Development decision 4/161 on the review of the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States,2 Reaffirming that, because the development options of small island developing States are limited, there are special challenges to devising and implementing sustainable development plans, and that small island developing States will be constrained in meeting such challenges and overcoming obstacles to sustainable development without the active support and cooperation of the international community, Stressing the need for greater attention to priority areas of the Programme of Action, particularly climate change and sea-level rise, energy 1 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1996, Supplement No. 8 (E/1996/28), chap. I, sect. C. 2 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 II. 97-76729 /...