Forty-ninth session
Agenda item 161
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 46/8 of 16 October 1991, by which
it granted observer status to the Caribbean Community,
Recalling also that the purposes of the United Nations
are, inter alia, to achieve international cooperation in solving
international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian
character,
Recalling further that the Charter of the United Nations
contemplates the existence of regional arrangements or agencies
for dealing with such matters as are appropriate for regional
action and other activities consistent with the purposes and principles
of the United Nations,
Bearing in mind that the Treaty of Chaguaramas, signed
at Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago, on 4 July 1973, 1/ which
established the Caribbean Community, created a permanent body
for intraregional cooperation, consultation and coordination in
order to enhance economic, social and cultural development, including
the optimum utilization of available human resources for sustainable
development,
Taking into account the reports of the Secretary-General
of 11 June 1992 entitled "An Agenda for Peace" 2/ and
6 May 1994 entitled "An agenda for development" 3/ and
the related consultations within the United Nations and regional
organizations on those subjects,
Taking note of the communiquÇ of the fifteenth meeting
of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community,
held at Bridgetown from 4 to 7 July 1994, 4/
Affirming the need to strengthen the cooperation that already
exists between entities of the United Nations system and the Caribbean
Community in the areas of economic and social development, as
well as of political and humanitarian affairs,
Convinced of the need for the coordinated utilization of
available resources to promote common objectives of the two organizations,
1. Takes note of the decision of the heads of Government
of the Caribbean Community on the desirability of strengthening
cooperation and coordination between the secretariats of the United
Nations and the Caribbean Community, as well as their request
for the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community to pursue
that matter with the Secretary-General of the United Nations;
5/
2. Invites the Secretary-General to take the necessary
measures, in consultation with the Secretary-General of the Caribbean
Community, to promote and expand cooperation and coordination
between both secretariats in order to increase the capacity of
the two organizations to attain their common objectives;
3. Requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with
the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, to promote meetings
between their representatives for consultations on policies, projects,
measures and procedures that will facilitate and broaden cooperation
and coordination between them;
4. 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;
5. Also requests the Secretary-General to submit to the
General Assembly at its fifty-first session a report on the implementation
of the present resolution;
6. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its
fifty-first session the item entitled "Cooperation between
the United Nations and the Caribbean Community".
93rd plenary meeting
20 December 1994
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1/ United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 946, No. 13489.
2/ A/47/277-S/24111.
3/ A/48/935.
4/ A/49/229, annex.
5/ See A/49/229, annex.