Monday, 10 May 2010

Press Release

10:00 - 13:00 SIDS DAY - Review of the Implementation of the Mauritius Strategy (PrepCom for MIS+5)

[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 2 hours and 57 minutes ]
[Webcast: Archived Video - Original language: 2 hours and 57 minutes ]

Opening Session

Opening remarks by the Chairperson of the 18th Session of the CSD
H.E. Dr. Luis Alberto Ferraté Felice, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources of Guatemala
[ Video - English ] [ Video - Spanish ]

OHRLLS
High Representative
[ Video - English ]

Policy and Inter-agency Affairs
Assistant Secretary-General
[ Video - English ]

Chairperson of the 18th Session of the CSD
[ Video - English ] [ Video - Spanish ]

Introduction of the Secretary-General report on the five-year integrated review of the MSI

Division for sustainable development
Director
[ Video - English ]

Grenada
[ Video - English ]

General discussions

Jamaica (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
[ Video - English ]

Spain (on behalf of the European Union)
[ Video - English ] [ Video - Spanish ]

Tuvalu (On behalf of the Pacific Small Island Developing States and Tuvalu)
[ Video - English ]

Australia
[ Video - English ]

United States of America
[ Video - English ]

China
[ Video - English ] [ Video - Chinese ]

Italy
[ Video - English ]

Barbados
[ Video - English ]

Maldives
[ Video - English ]

Antigua and Barbuda
[ Video - English ]

Solomon Island
[ Video - English ]

Guatemala
[ Video - English ] [ Video - Spanish ]

Cape Verde
[ Video - English ] [ Video - French ]

Japan
[ Video - English ]

Tanzania
[ Video - English ]

Samoa
[ Video - English ]

Fiji
[ Video - English ]

Mexico
[ Video - English ] [ Video - Spanish ]

Mauritius
[ Video - English ]

Workers and Trade Unions
[ Video - English ]

India
[ Video - English ]

Youth and Children
[ Video - English ]

NGO
[ Video - English ]

Indigenous Peoples
[ Video - English ]

Grenada
[ Video - English ]

Concluding remarks by the Chairperson of the 18th Session of the CSD
H.E. Dr. Luis Alberto Ferraté Felice, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources of Guatemala
[ Video - English ] [ Video - Spanish ]

Announcement by the Secretariat
[ Video - English ]

15:00 - 18:00 SIDS DAY - Review of the implementation of the Mauritius Strategy (PrepCom for MIS+5) (continued) and review of the status of implementation of themes of CSD-18

[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 2 hours and 7 minutes ]
[Webcast: Archived Video - Original language: 2 hours and 7 minutes ]

General discussions (continued)

Opening remarks by the Chairperson of the 18th Session of the CSD
H.E. Dr. Luis Alberto Ferraté Felice, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources of Guatemala
[ Video - English ] [ Video - Spanish ]

Switzerland
[ Video - English ] [ Video - French ]

Indonesia
[ Video - English ]

Chairperson of the 18th Session of the CSD
[ Video - English ] [ Video - Spanish ]

Introduction of the Secretary-General report on the CSD-18 integrated cluster for SIDS

Chairperson of the 18th Session of the CSD
[ Video - English ] [ Video - Spanish ]

Division for Sustainable Development
Director
[ Video - English ]

SIDS Thematic Roundtable discussions

Panellists:

• Mr. Bruce Graham
  Environmental Consultant
  [ Video - English ]
  
  
• Ms. Immaculate Javia
  Trainer in small scale mining in Papua New Guinea
  [ Video - English ]
  
  
• Mr. Abdhulla
  Maldives, Transport
  [ Video - English ]
  

• Mr. Gordon Bispham
  SCP
  [ Video - English ]

Jamaica (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
[ Video - English ]

Spain (on behalf of the European Union)
[ Video - English ] [ Video - Spanish ]

ITU
[ Video - English ]

Workers and Trade Unions
[ Video - English ]

Saudi Arabia
[ Video - English ]

Farmers
[ Video - English ]

Women
[ Video - English ]

Cuba
[ Video - English ] [ Video - Spanish ]

Comments and answers to the questions by the panellists

• Mr. Bruce Graham, Environmental Consultant
  [ Video - English ]
  
  
• Mr. Gordon Bispham
  [ Video - English ]
  
  
• Ms. Immaculate Javia, University of Papua New Guinea, Mining
  [ Video - English ]
  
  
• Mr. Abdhulla, Maldives, Transport
  [ Video - English ]

Grenada
[ Video - English ]

Division for Sustainable Development
Secretariat
Proposal for the organization of work of the High- Level Meeting of September 2010
[ Video - English ]

Barbados
[ Video - English ]

Chairperson of the 18th Session of the CSD
Draft decision on the modalities of the High-Level Review
[ Video - English ] [ Video - Spanish ]

Gabon
[ Video - English ] [ Video - French ]

Secretariat of the 18th Session of the CSD
Secretary
Presentation of the draft decision on the modalities of the High Level Review
[ Video - English ]

Grenada
[ Video - English ]

Secretariat of the 18th Session of the CSD
Secretary, on the using of the term "modalities"
[ Video - English ]

Grenada
[ Video - English ]

Secretariat of the 18th Session of the CSD
Secretary
[ Video - English ]

Jamaica
[ Video - English ]

Chairperson of the 18th Session of the CSD
Proposal to replace the term "modalities" by the term "Pending procedural aspects"
[ Video - English ] [ Video - Spanish ]

Closing remarks

Brief summary on the SIDS by the Chairperson of the 18th Session of the CSD
[ Video - English ] [ Video - Spanish / English ]