30 August 2021, Apia, Samoa - (Composite picture from left): Maria Helena Semedo, FAO Deputy Director-General; QU Dongyu, Director-General of FAO; Josaia V. Bainimarama, Prime Minister of Fiji; Abdulla Shahid, President, 76th Session of the UN General Assembly Innovation in the SIDS; Achim Steiner, Administrator of UNDP; Walton Webson, Chair of AOSIS; Houlin Zhao, Secretary General of ITU; Sridhar Dharmapuri, Senior Food Safety and Nutrition Officer, FAO; Jong-Jin Kim, FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific; Maximo Torero Cullen, Chief Economist, FAO; Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum Attorney-General and Minister for Economy, Civil Service and Communications, Fiji; Xiangjun Yao, Sub-Regional Coordinator for the Pacific, FAO; Taneti Maamau, President of Kiribati; David Kabua, President of the Republic of Marshall Islands; Surangel S. Whipps Jr., President of the Republic of Palau; Mark Brown, Prime Minister of Cook Islands; Fiame Naomi Mata?afa, Prime Minister of Samoa; Adaljiza Albertina Xavier Reis Magno, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Timor-Leste on behalf of Taur Matan Ruak, Prime Minister of Timor-Leste; Lord Tuilakepa, Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forests, Tonga on behalf of Pohiva Tu?i?onetoa, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Tonga; John Simon, Minister for Agriculture and Livestock on behalf of James Marape, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea; Renata Clarke, Sub-Regional Coordinator for the Caribbean, FAO; Indar Weir, Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Barbados; Saboto Caesar Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries and Rural Transformation St. Vincent and Grenadines; Charles Mbuli Boliko, FAO Representative to Madagascar, Comoros, Mauritius and Seychelles; Fransisco Martins dos Ramos, Ministre de l'agriculture, de la pêche et du developpement rural, Sao Tome and Principe; Flavien Joubert, Minister for Agriculture, Climate Change and Environment, Seychelles; Laurent Thomas, Deputy Director General, FAO; Ma Youxiang, Vice Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, China; Colm Brophy, Minister of State for Overseas Development Aid and Diaspora, Ireland; Woochong Um, Managing Director General, Asian Development Bank (ADB); Liu Zhenmin, Under-Secretary General, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA); Courtenay Rattray, High Representative, Office for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (OHRLLS); Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Executive Secretary, Economic and Social Commission for the Asia and Pacific (ESCAP); George Pinto Chikoti, Secretary General, Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS); Preeti Sinha, Executive Secretary, United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) . Inaugural Session. SIDS Solutions Forum, 30-31 August 2021.