Cooperation Between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community

A/RES/59/138View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 56e Cooperation between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community, published in 2005.

What other versions does this mandate have?

15 versions · 1995–2023

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/77/337

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2023	A/RES/77/337	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community	2,550	57%Compare
2021	A/RES/75/323	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community	2,509	25%Compare
2019	A/RES/73/347	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community	630	24%Compare
2017	A/RES/71/329	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community	2,542	50%Compare
2015	A/RES/69/265	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community	2,155	27%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

19 subjects

Capacity Building Caribbean Region Consultations Cooperation Between Organizations Economic Cooperation Field Offices Financial Assistance Grenada Haiti Hiv/Aids Humanitarian Assistance Hurricanes Programme Implementation Regional Development Regional Security Report Preparation Small Island Developing States Specialized Agencies Sustainable Development

What’s in this document?

11 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General,3 in particular section IV on the Caribbean Community, as well as efforts to strengthen cooperation;

Calls upon the Secretary-General of the United Nations, in association with the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, as well as the relevant regional organizations, to continue to assist in furthering the development and maintenance of peace and security within the Caribbean region;

Invites the Secretary-General to continue to promote and expand cooperation and coordination between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community in order to increase the capacity of the two organizations to attain their objectives;

Urges the specialized agencies and other organizations and programmes of the United Nations system to cooperate with the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community in order to initiate, maintain and increase consultations and programmes with the Caribbean Community and its associated institutions in the attainment of their objectives, with special attention to the areas and issues identified at the third general meeting, as set out in the report of the Secretary-General, as well as in resolutions 54/225, 55/203, 55/2 and S-26/2 and the decision of the World Summit on Sustainable Development on the sustainable development of small island developing States;⁵

⁵See Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August–4 September 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and corrigendum), chap. I, resolution 2.

Invites the organizations of the United Nations system as well as Member States to increase financial and other assistance to the countries of the Caribbean Community to help to implement the priorities of the Caribbean Regional Strategic Plan of Action, which sets out realistic targets for reducing the rate of new infections, raising the quality and coverage of care, treatment and support and building institutional capacity, and to cope with the problems and the burden caused by the HIV/AIDS pandemic;

Invites the Secretary-General to consider utilizing a strategic programming framework modality to strengthen the coordination and cooperation between the two secretariats as well as between the United Nations field offices and the Caribbean Community;

Calls upon the United Nations, the specialized agencies and other organizations and programmes of the United Nations system to assist the countries of the Caribbean, in particular those in greatest need, such as Grenada and Haiti, in their rebuilding efforts after the hurricane damage of 2004;

Welcomes the initiatives of Member States in assisting in the cooperation between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community, and encourages their continuing efforts;

Recommends that the fourth general meeting between representatives of the Caribbean Community and its associated institutions and of the United Nations system be held in the Caribbean in early 2006 in order to review and appraise progress in the implementation of the agreed areas and issues and to hold consultations on such additional measures and procedures as may be required to facilitate and strengthen cooperation between the two organizations;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-first session a report on the implementation of the present resolution;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-first session the sub-item entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community”.

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