Cooperation Between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community

A/RES/69/265View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 123e Cooperation between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community, published in 2015.

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?

8 subjects

Arms Limitation Caribbean Region Cooperation Between Organizations Drug Control Hiv/Aids Prevention Non-Communicable Diseases Regional Cooperation Slavery

What’s in this document?

20 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on cooperation between the United Nations and regional and other organizations,⁶ in particular paragraphs 44 to 54 on the Caribbean Community, concerning efforts to strengthen and deepen cooperation;

⁶A/69/228-S/2014/560.

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 risk reduction, sustainable development challenges, including poverty, inequality and non-communicable diseases, 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, including through the sustained and effective implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States,Error: Reference source not found the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing StatesError: Reference source not found and the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway,Error: Reference source not found and through the implementation of the strategic objectives of the Community;

Highlights the support that the United Nations Environment Programme has been extending for the implementation of environmental and sustainable development programmes of the Caribbean Community and for the building of capacity to enable effective regional responses to climate change, and further encourages continued collaboration with the Community as well as related regional and national institutions;

Emphasizes the active cooperation existing between the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and the Caribbean Community, particularly in supporting the region’s preparation for major conferences, 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 States members, and further encourages continued cooperation with the Community and its States members;

Recalls and reaffirms the political declaration of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases,⁷ and welcomes the outcome document of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the comprehensive review and assessment of the progress achieved in the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases;⁸

⁷Resolution 66/2, annex.

⁸Resolution 68/300.

Notes with concern the acknowledgement in the outcome document that progress has been insufficient and highly uneven in the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases, due in part to the complexity and challenging nature of non-communicable diseases, and further emphasizes that continued and increased efforts are essential for achieving a world free of the avoidable burden of non-communicable diseases, including through the implementation of multisectoral cost-effective, population-wide interventions and the provision of adequate, predictable and sustained resources, through domestic, bilateral and multilateral channels, including traditional and voluntary innovative financing mechanisms;

Affirms its decision in the outcome document to give due consideration to addressing non-communicable diseases in the elaboration of the post-2015 development agenda, given their serious socioeconomic consequences and determinants and their links to poverty, and in this regard notes the target for 2030 to reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment, as reflected in the report of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals;⁹

⁹A/68/970 and Corr.1.

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

Also expresses appreciation for the robust support and encouragement that the United Nations continues to give to the Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV/AIDS as it continues to perform its role as the regional response mechanism for reducing the spread and impact of HIV and AIDS through a system of universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support;

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 such areas 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 in the economies of the States of the region;

Notes with satisfaction the progress made in the initiative to erect a permanent memorial to the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, led jointly by States members of the Caribbean Community and the Group of African States at the United Nations, and in this regard expresses sincere gratitude to those Member States, organizations and individuals that have made contributions to the United Nations Trust Fund for Partnerships – Permanent Memorial, and encourages Member States and other interested parties to make further voluntary contributions to the Trust Fund;

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 its support and cooperation rendered in the preparatory activities for establishing a permanent memorial to the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, in keeping with the relevant General Assembly resolutions;

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, including 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;

Acknowledges the launch by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime of a regional programme for the period 2014–2016 in support of the Caribbean Community crime and security strategy, developed by the Community’s Implementation Agency for Crime and Security, and the conclusion of a memorandum of understanding between the Office and the Agency to facilitate collaboration between the two entities;

Reiterates 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 transnational organized crime, drugs, violent crime and the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons;

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

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-first 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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