United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/63/34
Distr.: General
27 January 2009
Sixty-third session
Agenda item 114 (e)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 26 November 2008
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/63/L.38 and Add.1)]
63/34. 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, 59/138 of 10 December 2004 and 61/50 of
4 December 2006,
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, in this regard, the cooperation activities undertaken by
the United Nations and the Caribbean Community in fields related to prohibiting
and restricting the use of certain conventional weapons, preventing and eradicating
the illicit trade in narcotic drugs, small arms and light weapons and the proliferation
of weapons of mass destruction,
Recalling the fruitful and action-oriented exchanges that have taken place
between the two organizations following 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, 59/230 of 22 December 2004 and
61/197 of 20 December 2006, 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 the support that the Caribbean Community has received
from the United Nations for its efforts to advance its implementation of the
Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for
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