United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/61/50
Distr.: General
16 February 2007
Sixty-first session
Agenda item 108 (e)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 4 December 2006
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/61/L.29 and Add.1)]
61/50. Cooperation between the United Nations and the
Caribbean Community
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 46/8 of 16 October 1991, 49/141 of 20 December
1994, 51/16 of 11 November 1996, 53/17 of 29 October 1998, 55/17 of 7 November
2000, 57/41 of 21 November 2002 and 59/138 of 10 December 2004,
Bearing in mind the provisions of Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United
Nations on the existence of regional arrangements or agencies for dealing with such
matters relating to the maintenance of international peace and security as are
appropriate for regional action and other activities consistent with the purposes and
principles of the United Nations,
Bearing in mind also the assistance given by the United Nations towards the
maintenance of peace and security in the Caribbean region,
Recalling the signing, on 27 May 1997, by the Secretary-General of the United
Nations and the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community of a cooperation
agreement between the secretariats of the two organizations,
Bearing in mind that, in its resolutions 54/225 of 22 December 1999, 55/203 of
20 December 2000, 57/261 of 20 December 2002 and 59/230 of 22 December 2004,
it recognized the importance of adopting an integrated management approach to the
Caribbean Sea area in the context of sustainable development,
Bearing in mind also that in the United Nations Millennium Declaration,
adopted by resolution 55/2 of 8 September 2000, Heads of State and Government
resolved to address the special needs of small island developing States by
implementing the Barbados Programme of Action 1 and the outcome of the twentysecond special session of the General Assembly 2 rapidly and in full,
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1
Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (Report of the
Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, Bridgetown,
Barbados, 25 April–6 May 1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.94.I.18 and corrigenda), chap. I,
resolution 1, annex II).
2
See resolution S-22/2.
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