UN General Assembly
2013

Conference, to be held in 2014, will be an important milestone, and Singapore has participated actively in all the preparatory meetings to date. At last year’s inaugural Conference on Small Island Developing States, which was organized by the Forum of Small States (FOSS), Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon agreed that small and vulnerable States deserved special attention. Singapore will continue to work with the members of FOSS to share the perspectives of small States and ensure that our views are factored into the evolution of the new global development road map. Although we are a small country, we will continue to play our part in assisting other countries in poverty eradication and furthering the sustainable development agenda. We established the Singapore Cooperation Programme in 1992 to share our developmental experience with our friends — our successes and our failures alike. We believe that technical assistance and capacity-building are more effective in creating the right conditions for growth. More than 80,000 Government officials from 170 countries have received training under the Programme in areas as diverse as sustainable urban development, water management