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AOSIS:
The emergence of AOSIS as a force on all aspects of
issues affecting SIDS has the potential to influence other ongoing
and future UN conferences and negotiations. These include, in
particular, the Commission on Sustainable Development, the
International Conference on Population and Development, the World
Summit on Social Development, the Convention to Combat
Desertification, the Biological Diversity Convention, the Climate
Change Convention, the entry into force of the UN Convention on the
Law of the Sea, the Conference on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly
Migratory Fish Stocks, and other marine- and waste-related
conventions and negotiations. AOSIS can give the islands greater
political leverage in these processes in several ways. First, as an
alliance, AOSIS can have greater influence on the issues that
affect its members and it can ensure that these interests are
reflected adequately in the resulting agreements. Second, they have
the potential for trade-offs with other regional and interest
groups on a variety of issues. For example, the presence of a
significant number of Sudano-Sahelian countries suffering from
desertification at this Conference is a precursor of the support
they will expect from SIDS at the forthcoming conclusion of the
INCD negotiations. SIDS can also offer their support to other
regional and interest groups in exchange for political support for
the follow-up of this Conference.