Niue endorses UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework 2023 – 2027

The United Nations Multi-Country Office in Samoa achieved another significant milestone when the last country it works with endorsed the Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework 2023 – 2027 at the Pacific Small Islands Developing States (SIDS) Solutions Forum held in Apia, 28 – 30 November 2022. The forum provided an opportunity for the document to be signed thereby allowing the United Nations to work across the Pacific in fourteen island countries and territories. Addressing the assembled participants at the high-level forum, Dr. Simona Marinescu, Resident Coordinator of the United Nations Multi-Country Office in Samoa explained that “without the Five Year Cooperation Framework, the United Nations cannot engage with all of you, governments and civil society as well as the private sector across the region, to be able to pursue jointly the sustainable development goals.”

The United Nations works in the Pacific with both UN and non-UN states and this is in recognition of the universality of the 2030 Agenda and the importance of leaving no-one behind.