Cooperation Between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community

A/RES/77/337View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 127h Cooperation between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community, published in 2022.

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15 versions · 1995–2023

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

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

2 entities

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 1	Prevention, management and resolution of conflicts	122
	Programme 18	Economic and social development in latin america and the caribbean	234

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

2 entities

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 1	Prevention, management and resolution of conflicts	122	—
	Programme 18	Economic and social development in latin america and the caribbean	234	—

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Caribbean Region Cooperation Between Organizations Regional Cooperation

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22 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on cooperation between the United Nations and regional and other organizations,⁸ in particular paragraphs 50 to 56 on the Caribbean Community, concerning efforts to strengthen and deepen cooperation;

⁸A/77/277-S/2022/606.

Welcomes the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Chaguaramas and the establishment of the Caribbean Community;

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;

Requests the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community to continue their cooperation and to enhance coherence in their engagement, 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, gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, and sustainable development challenges, including poverty and inequality, de-risking, non-communicable diseases, transnational organized crime, terrorism and violent extremism conducive to terrorism;

Looks forward to the convening of the twelfth general meeting between representatives of the Caribbean Community and the United Nations system;

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 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development,⁹ the Paris Agreement adopted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,¹⁰ the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030,¹¹ the New Urban Agenda adopted in Quito by the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) in 2016¹² and the political declarations entitled “Our ocean, our future: call for action”¹³ and “Our ocean, our future, our responsibility”¹⁴ adopted, respectively, at the 2017 and 2022 United Nations Conferences to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development;

⁹Resolution 69/313, annex.

¹⁰See FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21, annex.

¹¹Resolution 69/283, annex II.

¹²Resolution 71/256, annex.

¹³Resolution 71/312, annex.

¹⁴Resolution 76/296, annex.

Welcomes the convening of the fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States, which will be aimed at assessing the ability of small island developing States to achieve sustainable development, including the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals, in Antigua and Barbuda from 27 to 30 May 2024;

Notes the commitment made by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to improve policies and programmes to address the particular needs of small island developing States, including on access to international concessional finance;

Recognizes the role of extensive immunization against COVID-19 as a global public good for health in preventing, containing and stopping transmission in order to bring the pandemic to an end and realizing the Sustainable Development Goals, 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 Caribbean Community, including to the Caribbean Public Health Agency, and urges further cooperation in addressing communicable and non-communicable diseases, including access to and distribution of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics, as well as improving capacity for global pandemic prevention, preparedness and response;

Notes with concern the regression in educational gains due to school closures as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, encourages further cooperation between the United Nations system and the States members of the Caribbean Community towards the development of all children and youth, including those in vulnerable situations, irrespective of sex, age, race or ethnicity, to reach their full potential, and addressing the existing challenge of male academic underachievement and promoting the contribution of information and communications technology to education and distance-learning solutions, to provide inclusive and equitable quality education at all levels of early childhood, primary, secondary, tertiary and distance education, including technical and vocational training;

Notes with concern the findings of the synthesis report of the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which expressed, inter alia, that human activities, principally through greenhouse gas emissions, have unequivocally caused global warming, and that human-induced climate change has caused widespread adverse impacts and related losses and damages to nature and people; and notes that it is likely that warming will exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius during the twenty-first century and make it harder to limit warming to below 2 degrees Celsius unless deep reductions in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions occur in the coming decades, and in this regard stresses the urgent need to raise mitigation ambitions, enhance adaptive capacity, strengthen resilience and reduce vulnerability to climate change and extreme weather events and encourages further cooperation between the United Nations system and the States members of the Caribbean Community in mobilizing finance for climate action to address the needs of the Caribbean region;

Acknowledges the support by the United Nations system for countries in the region affected by the adverse impacts of climate change and natural disasters, and urges further cooperation to enhance assistance to the States members of the Caribbean Community in the implementation of their long-term programmes of disaster prevention, preparedness, mitigation, management, relief and recovery, on the basis of their development priorities, through the integration of relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction into a comprehensive approach to disaster risk reduction for sustainable development and resilience;

Welcomes the support of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction to the Caribbean Community Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency in implementing the Regional Comprehensive Disaster Management Strategy and Programming Framework 2014–2024 and the Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems Caribbean initiative through a systematic risk approach;

Emphasizes the active cooperation existing between the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and the Caribbean Community, including their ongoing work on debt and climate adaptation, such as the debt-for-climate-adaptation-swap initiative and the creation of a Caribbean resilience fund, and further encourages continued cooperation with the Community and its member States;

Encourages the United Nations and the specialized agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations system, within their respective mandates, to further strengthen their activities to ensure that no one is left behind, including by accelerating relevant action to stem poverty and to promote regional food security to curb the global slowdown in poverty reduction through actions to reverse food insecurity and food waste and loss, encourage sustainable production and consumption patterns, and promote healthier diets, and address the triple threat of COVID-19, conflict and climate change;

Notes with appreciation the existing cooperation between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community in supporting statistical capacity-building and data access to address existing challenges in producing, collecting, analysing and using high-quality, timely, reliable and disaggregated data and statistics required to enable small island developing States to effectively plan, follow up on, evaluate the implementation of and track success in attaining the Sustainable Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals, and encourages further practical steps to enhance such cooperation;

Welcomes the progress and takes note with appreciation of the interim report published by the High-level Panel on the Development of a Multidimensional Vulnerability Index for Small Island Developing States and looks forward to the finalization of the work of the Panel, and further encourages the international community to consider multidimensional vulnerability, including the potential of a multidimensional vulnerability index, as criteria to access concessional finance;

Recognizes the ongoing efforts to support the Government of Haiti in addressing the complex challenges to peace and security, governance and sustainable development and encourages further continuous, coherent and sustainable support of the United Nations and the international community to strengthen the capacity of the Government of Haiti to improve conditions to facilitate free and fair elections and to address the challenges of gang violence to ensure long-term security, stability, respect for human rights and sustainable development, in line with the country’s priorities;

Welcomes the partnership between the Office of Counter-Terrorism and the Caribbean Community Implementation Agency for Crime and Security to support the implementation of the Caribbean Community counter-terrorism strategy;

Expresses appreciation for the ongoing cooperation received from the Department of Global Communications of the Secretariat in the organization 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 implementation of the Remember Slavery educational outreach programme, in keeping with the relevant General Assembly resolutions;

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

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-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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