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VANUATU:
On behalf of the Association of Small Island States
(AOSIS), Amb. Robert Van Lierop focussed on the Conference on the
Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States. AOSIS
strongly supports the resumption of the PrepCom and assured other
delegates that the resumed session should start where the September
session left off -- no formal debates or speeches. The objective
would be to clear up as much of the outstanding issues as possible
prior to the Barbados Conference. In addition, they want to begin
work on the Barbados Declaration and incorporate views of the
recently held World Coast Conference into the final document. He
also added that AOSIS members would like to have informal
consultations with interested delegations to accelerate the work of
the PrepCom.