This emphasised the need for the compliance assessment to be proportionate to each country’s GDP, population and national capacity enabling them to comply with the Convention’s provisions, while recognising differing national capacities and resource realities, and promoting international cooperation and support accordingly.
This proposal received significant support from other SIDS and was approved.
Through the compliance process, the need for equity is clear. Solomon Islands and several other Pacific Island States have a national university and often a campus of the University of the South Pacific. With limited funding and capacity, research into anti-doping, which is a compliance requirement, is not always possible when compared to the research capacity of India with 1,338 universities.
On the issue of the sports integrity guidelines, given the advent of artificial intelligence and innovations in the area of gene modification, the proposal of the Solomon Islands to continue to update the Guidelines to ensure they remain current and focus on integrity issues in sport was approved.
This includes a focus on good governance as the basis on which integrity issues including safeguarding, match fixing, illegal betting and anti-doping can be addressed.
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-Ministry of Home Affairs Press Release
