UN General Assembly
2011

challenges faced by many small island States in our region. Allow me, like other speakers, to take this opportunity to welcome our newest member of the United Nations family — the Republic of South Sudan. Papua New Guinea continues to benefit from a strong United Nations presence through its delivery of various development programmes. Papua New Guinea welcomed and formalized the “One United Nations Initiative: delivering as one” concept in 2006. That has 11-51372 4 unified all the efforts of the various United Nations agencies under one budgetary framework, monitoring and evaluation process. The concept will enable a more effective and efficient way for the United Nations to deliver on its mandate, particularly the new country programme for Papua New Guinea, to be rolled out at the beginning of January 2012. It will target the areas of governance, social justice, health, education, gender, the environment, climate change and disaster management. That new country programme is part of our overall efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Since the inaugural MDG report was