Recognizing that small island developing States, given their size, limited resources, geographic dispersion and, in most cases, isolation from markets, face special challenges and unique vulnerabilities of an environmental and economic nature in their efforts to achieve sustainable development and the need to enhance their capacity to effectively benefit from the opportunities presented by trade liberalization and globalization, while minimizing their negative impact on small island developing States,
认识到小岛屿发展中国家由于其面积小、资源有限、地域分散且大多远离市场，在致力实现可持续发展时面临环境和经济性质的特殊挑战和独有的弱点，需要增强其能力，使其能在贸易自由化和全球化提供的机遇中有效地受益，并将贸易自由化和全球化对小岛屿发展中国家的负面影响减至最低程度，