UN General Assembly
2012

Social Affairs should be strengthened to enable it to provide coordinated support for small island developing States. Mauritius joins other world leaders who have called on all countries to deliver on their assistance commitments. The international community cannot spend so much capital on negotiating new pledges and undertakings in a whole array of outcome documents and then ignore what has been agreed. We can move forward only if past commitments are honoured. We welcome the proposed establishment of a sustainable development council to follow up on the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development and formulate sustainable development goals. We also welcome the appointment of a high-level panel on the post-2015 development agenda. Those entities and others should be able to build on what has already been agreed through global negotiations. I must say that our hearts go out to the people of Syria, who are enduring the consequences of a severe humanitarian crisis, as there is no prospect in sight of a resolution to the political struggle. The international community cannot remain indifferent to such suffering.