UN General Assembly
2001

are by low aggregate gross domestic product, low domestic savings and investment capacity and undeveloped financial markets. The development agenda of the Caribbean region cannot proceed without the requisite financing, nor can it be sustained without an enabling international environment. We must all therefore commit ourselves to ensuring the success of the Conference. Our renewed call for the rebirth of the United nations is further prompted by the observation that it is systematically being displaced as a source of guidance and as a fount of collective wisdom on global issues. We fear that if the United Nations continues to be marginalized in determining global development policies and strategies, then the concerns of developing countries will be excluded from the global agenda. A recent example of this is the decision not to include issues relating to the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States in the preparatory meetings for the World Summit on Sustainable Development. We see this as undermining the spirit of the United Nations resolution that convened the United Nations Global