Nauru calls for further strengthening of Zero-Draft of the Call for Action

Nauru has on behalf of Pacific Small Island Developing States called for strengthening of some areas in the Zero-Draft of the Call for Action.

Nauru’s Counsellor, Margo Deiye says the task ahead is to produce a concise and action oriented political declaration delivered her statement on Sustainable Development Go and the zero-draft has provided a good basis for negotiations to begin.

Speaking on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (IUU), Deiye says the zero-draft could also address the need to manage bycatch, discards and other adverse ecosystem impacts from fisheries.

Another area highlighted covers the need to develop approaches and mechanisms to ensure that the burden of conservation and management of ocean resources is not disproportionately transferred to Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

Deiye also highlighted that PSIDS has championed a stand-alone Sustainable Development Goal on the conservation and sustainable use of ocean because it is critical to Pacific lives and livelihoods.

“The steps that the Call for Action will set out are critical to the sustainable development of PSIDS, as an element of an integrated and indivisible sustainable development agenda. The call for action should reflect the critical interlinkages between SDG-14 and all of the other goals and targets, and the essential role it will play in achieving the core objectives of the 2030 Agenda,” she said.

Nauru is the current chair of 12 Pacific SIDS in New York, the group of Pacific countries leading the negotiations on oceans on behalf of the region

     

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