Cooperation Between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 114e Cooperation between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community, published in 2009.

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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

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19 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General,Error: Reference source not found in particular section II.E on the Caribbean Community, concerning efforts to strengthen and deepen 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;

Calls for, in this context, vastly increased efforts by developed countries to strengthen the multilateral development framework so that the United Nations development system may respond more effectively to the needs of programme countries, so that they, including the countries of the Caribbean Community, can pursue their development efforts on the basis of secure and predictable funding;

Urges the specialized agencies and other organizations and programmes of the United Nations system to step up their cooperation with the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community with a view to intensifying their consultations and programmes of cooperation with the Caribbean Community and its associated institutions in the attainment of their objectives, with special attention to the areas and issues identified by the two organizations at their fourth general meeting, held in January 2007,6 as set out in the report of the Secretary-General, as well as in its resolutions 54/225, 55/2 of 8 September 2000, 55/203 and S-26/2 of 27 June 2001 and the decisions of the World Summit on Sustainable Development,Error: Reference source not found and of the International Meeting to Review the Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States,Error: Reference source not found as well as the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development;Error: Reference source not found

Takes note of the exchanges in progress between the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and the Caribbean Community aimed at the design and implementation of programmes for enhancing the industrial development capacity of the countries of the Caribbean Community;

Also takes note of the various cooperation activities between the Caribbean Community and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations designed to increase agricultural output and improve food security in the region by modernizing agricultural production and developing sustainable agricultural strategies;

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 Framework for HIV/AIDS, 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;

Stresses the urgent need for the reopening of the office of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in the region so as to reinforce the efforts of the States of the region in their struggle against the interrelated scourges of drugs, violent crime and the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons;

Expresses appreciation for the cooperation received from the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat in the implementation of the activities commemorating on 25 March 2007 the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, the commemoration of which is to be observed on an annual basis;

Also expresses appreciation for the continuing support and cooperation being received from the Department of Public Information in the preparatory activities for establishing a permanent memorial to the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, in keeping with General Assembly resolution 62/122 of 17 December 2007;

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 addressing the social and economic consequences of the vulnerability of Caribbean economies and the challenges that this poses for achieving the Millennium Development Goals and the goal of sustainable development;

Reaffirms the objective of strengthening the implementation of the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States,1 including through the mobilization of financial and technological resources, as well as capacity-building programmes;

Welcomes the extensive work done by the Commission on the Caribbean Sea since the adoption of General Assembly resolution 61/197 entitled “Towards the sustainable development of the Caribbean Sea for present and future generations”, including the development of institutional and legal frameworks for Caribbean Sea governance;

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

Further welcomes the convening in New York, on 9 and 10 February 2009, of the fifth general meeting between representatives of the Caribbean Community and its associated institutions on the one hand and of the United Nations system on the other, 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-fifth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution;

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

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