Translation of "Pays insulaire " (French → English) :

island developing country | DIC [Abbr.] | IDC [Abbr.]

Intergovernmental Group on the Special Programme for the Least Developed, Land-Locked and Island Developing Countries

Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States | OHRLLS [Abbr.]

Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States [ OHRLLS ]

Subcommittee for the special problems of the least-developed, landlocked and island countries

The fact that the protocol agreed between the EU and Kiribati does not comply with the VDS is causing important tensions, both between the EU and some Pacific island countries and between Kiribati and the other Pacific island countries, with the latter voicing concerns about the EU acting in bad faith and breaking regional solidarity.

Most of the countries of the Western and Central Pacific are island states belonging to the ACP group of countries.

The EU has concluded various partnership agreements with the Pacific region. This renewed partnership involves 15 independent island countries (1), four Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) (2), the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), as well as Australia and New Zealand - key members of the Forum and like-minded partners.

Notes that the Commission makes poverty a central issue in its new policy of ‘differentiation’; observes, however, that 70 % of people whose income is below the poverty threshold live in middle-income countries, many of whom remain fragile and vulnerable, notably the Small Island Developing States (SIDS), and hence deplores the fact that the poor in those countries continue to be deprived of access to education, healthcare and other benefits of internal economic growth, the liability for which lies with these states; calls on the Commission to set, for the implementation of the differentiation concept, vulnerability criteria in the common programming guidelines of the new DCI and the 11th EDF currently under discussion, and to take accoun ...[+++]t of the realities of poverty, human development and inequalities inside a country, and not only of national GNI;