#2024HLPF Ministerial Segment: Permanent Mission of Samoa to the UN 🇼🇸 PR & AOSIS H.E. Mr. Luteru warned that "it is easy to abandon the collective to safeguard the individual, but history reminds us of the folly in that approach." #RisingUpforSIDS United Nations ESCAP UNECE ECA ESCWA UN ECOSOC President

At #COP29, we need the world to stand up for SIDS like Belize – the keepers of our precious ecosystems. Ambitious commitments on #ClimateFinance #NCQG will be absolutely crucial to unlocking much-needed financial flows for #adaptation and #lossanddamage. #StandUpForSIDS #SIDSLead

Today, #climatechange country heads are gathered for the #COP29 Heads of Delegation retreat. We are less than four months away from the critical global climate change conference. Are developed countries and leading economies living up to their commitments on #climateaction?

At COP29 Azerbaijan HODs mtg, AOSIS urged amplified action ahead of #COP29. Particularly, we look forward to enhanced collaboration as we work towards a fit-for-purpose #NCQG New Collective Quantified Goal on #climatefinance, to truly power the potential of the #ParisAgreement.

His Excellency António Guterres , UN🇺🇳 Secretary-General is visiting Samoa🇼🇸 for the first time as part of his visit to the Pacific ahead of the PIF Leaders meeting in Tonga🇹🇴 from 26-30 August 2024.

💲Trillions are needed to provide efficient, adequate flows of climate finance to those who need it most. This is why we need developed countries to #StandForSIDS and commit to high ambition on an #NCQG that effectively addresses #Mitigation, #Adaptation, and #LossAndDamage.

The ava ceremony hosted by the Government of Samoa to honor the arrival of the 🇺🇳Secretary General António Guterres is an important moment of his life. Drinking the ava, he pays tribute to the history, culture, traditions and people of Samoa. The ava ceremony preceded his visit to

I thank Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa for welcoming me to Samoa. This is the first stop in my visit to the Pacific Islands - a region that has demonstrated enormous resilience & leadership in the face of the climate crisis.

I was deeply moved by my meeting with coastal communities in Samoa forced to move their homes inland. Sea levels are rising at a rate not seen in at least 3,000 years. If we don’t reverse these climate change trends, we will see this tragedy in other coastal areas globally.

Honourable Fiame Naomi Mataafa, Prime Minister of Samoa, meeting with The UN Secretary-General António Guterres in Samoa.

As I witnessed in Samoa, high & rising sea levels are already causing severe damage to people in coastal communities in the Pacific region & other small island developing countries. The world can no longer wait to take bold & resolute international #ClimateAction.

Injustice is having to suffer dire consequences of a crisis you did not cause. If we do not commit to limiting 🌏 warming under 1.5C and enhancing climate finance, #climatechange impacts will worsen - for ALL countries. The safety of our world depends on #climateaction NOW.

King Charles and Queen Camilla will be arriving in Samoa shortly. People here have spent the last 3 months decorating their villages in commonwealth colours 👑 🇼🇸 #Royalvisit ##CHOGM2024

King Charles and Queen Camilla are making their maiden visit to Samoa - the first for a British royal since the mid-1970s.

Breaking: King Charles and Queen Camilla arrive in Samoa.

It is unique that as host of this year’s #CHOGM, each Samoan Village has adopted one of the 56 countries of the Commonwealth and have adorned their communities with the colours and flags of the respective countries. I was delighted to visit Malie, the village that has adopted

The Government of Samoa & Government of Belize have formally established diplomatic relations, effective 25 February 2025. The Joint Communiqués were signed at the Permanent Mission of Belize in NY by H.E. Carlos Fuller, of Belize and H.E Fatumanava Dr. Pa'olelei Luteru of Samoa 🇼🇸🤝🇧🇿shorturl.at/zTEBl

Today, the Republic of Uganda and #Samoa signed a Joint Communique establishing #diplomaticrelations, to promote and strengthen ties of friendship and cooperation between the countries and their peoples. H.E.Amb. Adonia Ayebare, Permanent Representative of #Uganda to the #UN,

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The Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Coalition for Nature members safeguard more than 10 million km² of ocean. At the SIDS Coalition for Nature side-event, UN Development reaffirmed its support to SIDS to advance integrated ocean-nature solutions to advance inclusive growth & #SaveOurOcean 🌊