Intervention of Saudi Arabia
By Aysar Tayeb
2nd Prep-Com for Rio+20
UN Headquarters, New York,
7-8 March 2011
Saudi Arabia Supports G77 Statements
Institutional Frameworks
· The CSD remains the official body for addressing the three pillars
· The balance of these three pillars is extremely important
· So, we can look at ways to strengthen the CSD
· The problem is not in the institutional framework for sustainable
development,
· Here, like other many others, we think there are a couple of points,
o There are enough (probably more than enough) existing
institutions, covering a wide scope of areas under sustainable
development, but perhaps there is a lack of coordination, and
specificity and specialty in their roles, and thus in many cases end
up duplicating efforts
o In addition, being that they are specified organizations, none of
them, including UNEP, can take up the comprehensive role of CSD,
and maintain the balance between the three pillars
· Again, the problem is not in the institutional framework for sustainable
development,
· The problem however is, and has always been, in the means of
implementation
· The ODA commitment, that have never been fulfilled, despite the
meetings, the summits and the resolutions, is just one example of how
means of implementation are not coming through
· So, we don’t believe that we have an institutional problem as such, we
have the right vehicle in the CSD, the challenge however, is that when
there is no fuel to run this vehicle, there is a limit to how far it can go, or
aim at reaching, any of the millennium development goals
