1 APRIL 2013
Apia, Samoa, 1 April 2013 - United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs Wu Hongbo is leading a UN planning mission to Samoa to prepare for the 2014 Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States. Mr. Wu is also Secretary-General of the Conference.
Countries agreed at last year’s Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development that greater efforts were needed to assist small island developing States and called for convening a conference in 2014. The General Assembly has accepted Samoa’s offer to host the Conference.
Read more here: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1304/S00008/un-and-samoa-2014-small-islands-sustainability-conference.htm