Cooperation Between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community

A/RES/67/249View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 121e Cooperation between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community, published in 2013.

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?

6 subjects

Arms Limitation Caribbean Region Cooperation Between Organizations Drug Control Non-Communicable Diseases Regional Cooperation

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17 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General,⁶ in particular paragraphs 36 to 48 on the Caribbean Community, concerning efforts to strengthen and deepen cooperation;

⁶A/67/280-S/2012/614.

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;

Notes the recent engagements between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community;

Requests the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community to continue to promote and expand cooperation within their respective mandates so as to increase the capacity of the two organizations to attain their objectives and to seek answers to global challenges, including climate change, disaster relief and preparedness, socioeconomic challenges, including poverty, and transnational organized crime;

Calls upon the United Nations and the specialized agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations system, bearing in mind the particular vulnerabilities of the States members of the Caribbean Community, to intensify their assistance to those States to enable them to address the diverse challenges that these vulnerabilities pose to achieving sustainable development;

Welcomes the political declaration of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases,⁷ adopted by consensus, and in particular the acknowledgement of non-communicable diseases as a development challenge and the commitment to coordinated, multisectoral approaches, development of national plans, prioritization of prevention by addressing common risk factors, development of voluntary targets, strengthening of national health systems, including the provision of universal coverage, and promotion of increased access to medicines;

⁷Resolution 66/2, annex.

Stresses the importance of greater international solidarity, cooperation and assistance in accelerating the implementation of multisectoral national plans and of giving due consideration to non-communicable diseases as a development priority in the elaboration of the post-2015 United Nations development agenda;

Expresses appreciation for the robust partnership arrangements between the Caribbean Community and the World Health Organization and Pan American Health Organization in addressing non-communicable diseases, and commends the valuable supportive role being played by the World Health Organization and Pan American Health Organization through the provision of technical and other resources to the Caribbean Community in its effort to establish and operationalize the Caribbean Public Health Agency as a mechanism for cooperation and coordination across the region on public health policy;

Also expresses appreciation for the active cooperation existing between the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and the Caribbean Community, particularly in improving the capacity of the Community in gathering and analysing data and in deepening its analysis of the intraregional and external trade of the Community, as well as in elaborating on the concept of vulnerability in the context of the graduation of some of its member States;

Notes with appreciation the existing cooperation between the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the Caribbean Community, and calls for further deepening of that cooperation in areas such as the contribution of information and communications technology to education, the protection of world heritage sites in the Community, the challenge of male academic underachievement and the role of cultural industries to the economies of the States of the region;

Also notes with appreciation the commitment of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to the initiative for establishing a permanent memorial to the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, jointly led by the States members of the Caribbean Community and the Group of African States at the United Nations, and in this regard requests increased collaboration with the Permanent Memorial Committee towards the successful conclusion of the international design competition for the permanent memorial;

Further notes with appreciation the ongoing efforts of the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean in providing technical assistance and capacity-building to States members of the Caribbean Community in the management of stockpiles of small arms and light weapons and their ammunition and the destruction of obsolete and seized firearms, ammunition and explosives;

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 annual commemoration of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade on 25 March and for the continuing support and cooperation being received 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 and subsequent resolutions;

Requests the Department of Public Information, in cooperation with the countries concerned and relevant organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, to continue to take appropriate steps to enhance public awareness worldwide of the commemorative activities and the permanent memorial initiative, and to continue to facilitate efforts to erect the permanent memorial at United Nations Headquarters;

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

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-ninth session, under the item entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and regional and other organizations”, the sub-item entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community”.

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