UN General Assembly
2010

that includes many small island developing States (SIDS), already know the different set of challenges that these questions bring — questions that other countries will also have to face as they achieve and move beyond the MDGs. The debate needs to start now, as we fast approach 2015, on how countries will access the affordable financing they will need not just to move beyond the MDGs, but to ensure that they keep and do not lose what they have achieved. That is why Seychelles announced at the MDG summit that we will be engaging with the United Nations system to enter into new commitments towards setting MDG-plus targets, the overall objective being to make sustainable development a reality beyond the Millennium Development Goals and the next generation. We are all aware of the differences among us in our sizes and populations. The needs of every Member of the United Nations are different. We have learned a lot about development over the years, and today we all know that one-size-fits-all does not work. At the United Nations and other development organizations,