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A New Vision: Samoa Assumes Leadership of AOSIS
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ALLIANCE OF SMALL ISLANDS STATES – SAMOA’S VISION FOR THE PERIOD 2023 AND 2024 Prime Minister Browne Excellencies and distinguished colleagues, Let me begin by offering Samoa’s best wishes to each and everyone present here today for a highly successful and rewarding 2023. It will be a full and demanding year for all of us.…
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Leaders Call On International Community To Support SIDS Recovery
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Presidents of the UN General Assembly, Caribbean Development Bank, and other leaders highlight need for MVI, social and economic transformation, strengthened international commitments at recently concluded Wadadli Action Platform Wednesday 10th August 2022: H.E. Mr. Abdulla Shahid, President of the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly, called on the international community to strengthen…
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Communique from the Fifth Summit of AOSIS Heads of State and Government
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Adopted at the Swami Vivekananda Convention Centre Port Louis, Mauritius, 12 January 2005. 1. The Heads of State and Government of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) met on 12 January 2005 in Port Louis, Mauritius. The meeting was chaired by The Honourable Paul Raymond Bérenger G.C.S.K, Prime Minister of the Republic of Mauritius…
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AOSIS sets out a pressing agenda at 56th UNGA
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Mr. Chairman, I have the honour to make this statement on behalf of the thirty-seven members of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) that are represented at the United Nations. In their name I congratulate you and the other Bureau officers for your election. Let me also say that as developing countries the AOSIS…
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SIDS target 10 GW total installed renewable energy capacity by 2030
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Target and Timeframe: The Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Lighthouses Initiative (LHI) is setting a target of 10 GW total installed renewable energy (RE) capacity in all SIDS by 2030. Context for the ambition: In launching the second phase of the SIDS Lighthouses Initiative (LHI) in 2018, SIDS and development partners endorsed that the SIDS…
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AOSIS Calls For SIDS-Led Solutions At Pacific Islands Conference
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AOSIS Calls For SIDS-Led Solutions At Pacific Islands Conference Pivotal meeting produces regional agreement on SIDS priorities ahead of the Fourth International Conference on SIDS August 18, 2023 Leaders from small island developing states (SIDS) across the Pacific region convened in Nuku’alofa, Tonga, on August 16th – 18th for the seminal Preparatory Meeting of the…
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Slow progress on Sustainable Development front for small nations
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Mr. Chairman, Grenada has the honour address you and the Co-Chair H.E Mr. John Ashe and to congratulate and thank you, your distinguished staff and the Secretariat for your leadership. Co-Chairs, Grenada has the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the 43 members of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS). AOSIS aligns…
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Globalization must not end in re-colonization of SIDS by economic means
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Mr. Chairman, I have the honor to speak on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States, and to congratulate you and your bureau on your election. This year the 2nd Committee will have a very busy schedule, and our group of countries wish to take this opportunity to highlight the most important aspects of…
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AOSIS Statement on Agenda items 18: Sustainable development Second Committee
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9 October 2023, UNHQ Mr. Chair, Excellencies, Distinguished Delegates, I have the honor to deliver this statement on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States. We align ourselves with the statement delivered by the distinguished representative of Cuba on behalf of the Group of 77 and China. Mr. Chair, In 1992 at the United…
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IRENA Partners with Alliance of Small Island States to Accelerate Energy Transition in SIDS
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Glasgow, United Kingdom, 08 November 2021 – The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) signed an agreement today at COP26, known as ‘Adaptation Day’, that will see the two organisations work closely to mobilise climate finance and to advance the deployment of renewable energy across Small Island Developing…