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Caribbean Regional Preparatory Meeting for the 2014 Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

2-4 July 2013 | Kingston, Jamaica

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Highlights for Thursday, 4 July 2013
Jamaica Regional PrepCom for SIDS
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The negotiations of the outcome document were chaired by Janice Miller, Jamaica (left), with Farrah Brown, Jamaica, and Hiro Morita-Lou, UNDESA.
The Caribbean Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States met for its final day in Kingston on Thursday.

The drafting group had worked all night Wednesday into the early hours on Thursday morning to produce a draft outcome document. Once delegates had a chance to review the text, at 11:30 am, the meeting reconvened in a formal setting to begin negotiations on the outcome document.  Delegates worked straight through the day on the 30-paragraph document, until some began to question the nature of the document and whether it should be replaced. The meeting was suspended at 5:30 pm so that the Bureau could discuss the situation and when the meeting reconvened an hour later, negotiations resumed on the draft outcome document and continued until 10:45 pm, when the meeting suspended to print the revised document.

The meeting resumed at midnight and a group of 12 delegates continued to negotiate the outcome document. The “Kingston Outcome of the Caribbean Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States” was adopted at 4:55 am on Friday, 5 July 2013.

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L-R: Fitzmaurice Christian and Tumasie Blair, Antigua and Barbuda
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L-R: Gitanjali Chandarpal, Guyana, Maria Eugenia del Castillo, Dominican Republic, and Marguerite St. John, Grenada, consulting
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Delegates from Cuba consulting
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Navin Chanderpal, Guyana
Amb. Lois Young, Belize
Norma Cherry-Fevrier, Saint Lucia
Amb. Camillo Gonsalves, St. Vincent and Grenadines
Rhianna Neely, Bahamas
A group of 12 delegates negotiated the outcome document until nearly 5:00 am.
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Meeting resources

bulletGeneral Assembly resolution

bulletConference website

bulletSIDSnet

bulletSymposium on Understanding Ecological and Social Resilience in Island Systems, 9-11 April 2013, UN Headquarters, New York, United States of America

bulletExpert Group Meeting (EGM) on Oceans, Seas and Sustainablr Development: Implementation and follow-up to Rio+20, 18-19 April 2013, UN Headquarters, New York, United States of America

bulletEGM on SIDS and Post-2015 Development Agenda, 23-24 April 2013, UN Headquarters, New York, United States of America

bulletEGM on Marine Science and Technology for SIDS, 14-15 May 2013, Geneva, Switzerland

bulletEGM on Foresight and SIDS: Identifying emerging sustainable development issues from the perspective of SIDS, 14-16 May 2013, Cambridge, Enlgand

bulletGlobal Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction - Strengthening Partnerships Towards Disaster Risk Reduction for SIDS, 21 May 2013, Geneva, Switzerland

bulletBarbados Programme of Action

bulletMauritius Strategy of Implementation


IISD RS resources

bulletIISD RS summary report of the Barbados Conference on the Sustinable Development of SIDS, 25 April - 6 May 1994, Bridgetown, Barbados (HTML - PDF)

bulletIISD RS coverage of the Twenty-second Special Session of the General Assembly for the Review and Appraisal of the Barbados Programme of Action (BPOA+5), 27-28 September 1999, UN Headquarters, New York, United States of America

bulletIISD RS coverage of the Inter-regional Preparatory Meeting for the 10-year Review of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of SIDS, 26-30 January 2004, Nassau, Bahamas

bulletIISD RS coverage of the SIDS Preparatory Meeting for the 10-Year Review of the Barbados Programme of Action, 14-16 April 2004, UN Headquarters, New York, United States of America

bulletIISD RS coverage of the International Meeting to Review the Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of SIDS, 10-14 January 2005, Port Louis, Mauritius

bulletIISD RS coverage of the High-level Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (MSI+5), 24-25 September 2010, UN Headquarters, New York, United States of America

bulletSIDS-L - A mailing list for news on SIDS policy

bulletSIDS Policy & Practice - A Knowledgebase of UN and Intergovernmental Activities Addressing SIDS

bulletLinkages Update - Bi-weekly international environment and sustainable development news
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