54. Young 女士(伯利兹)代表小岛屿国家联盟发言说，《2030 年议程》的实施已经因冠状病毒病而大大受挫，联合国的价值观正日益受到质疑。这场大流行病突显了本已陈腐的发展方法，以及发展中国家和特殊处境国家长期以来被迫接受一个局面，即他们只是从一场危机踉踉跄跄地走向另一场危机。他们被告知，他们发展迟缓是由于他们自己的无能造成的。然而，30 多年来，小岛屿发展中国家一直在要求采取具体的支持措施。人们的回应总是不冷不热地承认他们面临的结构性制约。
54. Ms. Young (Belize), speaking on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States, said that implementation of the 2030 Agenda had been set back substantially as a result of COVID-19 and that the values of the United Nations were increasingly being called into question. The pandemic had underlined the already threadbare approach to development and the fact that developing countries and countries in special situations had long been obliged to accept a situation in which they simply lurched from one crisis to the next. They were told that their delayed development was caused by their own ineptitude. However, small island developing States had been demanding specific measures of support for more than 30 years. The response had always been little more than a lukewarm acknowledgement of the structural constraints facing them.