Secretary-General Addresses Meeting on Resource Mobilization for SIDS

Secretary-General António Guterres addresses a high-level meeting on Resource Mobilization for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) during the fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4).

At the table are, from right to left: Fiamē Naomi Mata'afa, Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Independent State of Samoa; Li Junhua, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs; Mr. Guterres; Alphonso Browne, Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Corporate Governance and Public Private Partnerships of Antigua and Barbuda; and Jutta Urpilainen, Commissioner for International Partnerships of the European Commission.

The Conference is held from 27 to 30 May 2024 in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda. Under the overarching theme of "Charting the course toward resilient prosperity", the Conference will aim at assessing the ability of SIDS to achieve sustainable development, including the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals. It will result in an intergovernmentally agreed, focused, forward-looking and action-oriented political outcome document.