Fiji, April 4 -- Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)chair and Samoan Ambassador to the United Nations, Fatumanava Pa'olelei Luteru is calling for ambitious action-oriented outcomes from the Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in May.

"As we approach the end of the informals and stand at the mid-way point of the preparatory committees, we also thank delegations for their expressed assurances to SIDS. We only need now to reaffirm these expressions in tangible commitments.

"The enthusiasm and goodwill at the start of this process needs to materialise into very practical SIDS-designed outcomes; half attempts and reiteration of agreed language from non-SIDS processes, stretching back to a different ti...