Secretary-General Attends Meeting on Resource Mobilization for SIDS

Li Junhua (second from right), Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, 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 right is Fiamē Naomi Mata'afa, Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Independent State of Samoa, and in the centre is Secretary-General António Guterres.

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.