UN General Assembly
1992

Committee on the Indian Ocean was of the view that the General Assembly might wish to consider alternative approaches. The Tenth Non-Aligned Summit Meeting in Jakarta took cognizance of this view and reiterated the determination to continue efforts to achieve the goals of the Declaration as considered at the meeting of littoral and hinterland States held in 1979. We hope that the new spirit of cooperation evident elsewhere in the world will embrace the Indian Ocean region as well. My delegation is pleased with the conclusions reached at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro. We endorse the principles enunciated in the Rio Declaration, the programmes in Agenda 21, the commitment to a shared partnership by the provision of adequate new and additional funding and the transfer of the necessary technologies to developing countries. Sri Lanka has signed the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity. We expect that the creation of a commission for sustainable development will without delay move