UN General Assembly
2009

commitments by some industrialized countries to do more to address harmful emissions. I hope that that will be translated into concrete results on the environment and climate change at the Copenhagen summit later this year. I also wish to urge the United Nations to strengthen the Small Island Developing States Unit with additional resources to make it more effective in addressing the concerns of Member States. I look forward to the Unit’s assistance as we work towards the five-year review of the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States at the current sixty-fourth session. I urge Member States to ensure that the agreed goals of the Mauritius Strategy and the commitments made are implemented and to support initiatives proposed during the review exercise. In multilateralism, constructive partnership is an effective strategy. In such an approach, we are forced to appreciate the value of belonging: the need for all peoples of the world to be embraced within the fraternity of nations and to be allowed to contribute to