Because the Fourth Worldwide Convention on Small Island Growing States (SIDS4) in Antigua and Barbuda approaches, the British Virgin Islands (BVI) has rallied help for the 13 Affiliate Members of UN ECLAC positioned within the Caribbean on the seventh Assembly of the Discussion board of the International locations of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Improvement in Santiago, Chile, which was attended by UN Deputy Secretary-Basic mina Mohammed and chaired by Costa Rica Minister for Nationwide Planning and Financial Coverage Hon. Laura Fernandez Delgado.
BVI Particular Envoy Benito Wheatley as a panelist on the panel entitled ‘Advancing the priorities of Caribbean small island growing states in direction of attaining the 2030 Agenda’ moderated by Diane Quarless, Chief of the ECLAC Caribbean Subregional Headquarters, referred to as for worldwide help to all SIDS, together with the Affiliate Members of UN ECLAC.
In his remarks, Wheatley stated, “The Affiliate Members stay undeterred in our quest for help to help us with sustainable improvement and local weather resilience… Collectively (with the UN system) we’ll attempt to discover a method ahead in order that the Affiliate Members are usually not left behind as worldwide efforts are made to speed up achievement of the Sustainable Improvement Objectives by 2030.”
Wheatley emphasised that the British Virgin Islands had advocated on behalf of the Affiliate Members on the varied SIDS4 preparatory conferences, however that larger acknowledgement of their wants was nonetheless required, as nicely corresponding help for his or her sustainable improvement and local weather resilience underneath the brand new SIDS Programme of Motion that shall be agreed in Antigua and Barbuda from Twenty seventh-Thirtieth Could 2024.
On the official closing ceremony of the seventh Assembly of the Discussion board of the International locations of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Improvement, Govt Secretary of UN ECLAC Jose Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs acknowledged the challenges confronted by the Affiliate Members in his closing assertion.
“Please permit me to acknowledge the considerations raised by the Consultant of the British Virgin Islands on the necessity of the Affiliate Members to realize entry to financing for improvement and different sorts of help to strengthen their sustainable improvement and local weather resilience. This discussion board will proceed to be a platform in order that the Affiliate Members can current their challenges,” the top of the area’s UN regional fee stated.
In affirming help for the Affiliate Members, the Member States of the Discussion board included within the consequence doc agreed to, “recognise their particular political and financial constraints and their vulnerabilities of their pursuit of sustainable improvement, and encourage their continued inclusion, the place acceptable, within the work of the Fee (i.e. ECLAC) and its subsidiary our bodies.”
The help expressed by the Discussion board represents a lift for the British Virgin Islands and different Affiliate Members of the UN regional commissions heading into the SIDS4 convention.
The seventh Assembly of the Discussion board of the International locations of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Improvement passed off in Santiago, Chile from April 15 to 18.
