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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.
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