Report of the seventeenth meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee

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The Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) adopted by acclamation the conclusions and recommendations below, which are based on the statement made by Saint Vincent and the Grenadines as Rapporteur of the meeting (on behalf of Saint Lucia), and appended ad verbatim as annex III of this report.

The meeting acknowledged the excellent work of the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean over the past year, and expressed the hope that it would continue to receive adequate resources to conduct its work in the coming biennium.

The Monitoring Committee recognized the enhanced standing of the CDCC associate Members, who were invited to better engage with the efforts of ECLAC by sharing their areas of specific technical interests. This would facilitate better integration of those interests into the programme of work of the ECLAC subregional headquarters. The meeting also acknowledged the interest of Cuba in the work of the ECLAC subregional headquarters, and ECLAC committed to better integrate them into the work of the
subregional headquarters.

ECLAC should undertake focused analysis with respect to the development of the maritime transportation sector in the subregion in order to strengthen the regional trade regime. The meeting agreed to seek a suitable replacement for the Chairman of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) of the Regional Coordinating Mechanism (RCM).

UN Symbol: LC/CAR/L.469