Report of the twenty-fifth session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee

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The Committee endorsed the report of the Technical Advisory Committee of the Regional Coordinating Mechanism. It also welcomed the recommendations of the third meeting of the Caribbean Development Roundtable through the adoption of resolution 83 (XXV), Support for the findings of the Caribbean Development Roundtable.

The CDCC endorsed the proposed strategic framework for the period 2016-2017 and the proposed programme of work for the biennium 2016-2017, including subprogramme 13 on subregional activities in the Caribbean, through the adoption of resolution 85 (XXV), Support for the
work of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in the Caribbean, and took note of the report of the implementation of the biennium 2012-2013 programme of work.

The Committee took note of both the thirty-fifth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean to be held in Lima from 5 to 9 May 2014, and the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States to be convened in Apia from 1 to 4 September 2014.

The CDCC agreed that the location of the Seventeenth Meeting of its Monitoring Committee would be held at the ECLAC subregional headquarters for the Caribbean in Port of Spain in 2015. The exact date would be determined in consultation with the Chair.

The Committee adopted the following resolutions: resolution 81 (XXV), Support for the work of the ECLAC Port of Spain office in Disaster Assessments and Resilience Building in the Caribbean; resolution 82 (XXV), Promoting the rights of Persons with Disabilities; resolution 83 (XXV), Support for the findings of the Caribbean Development Roundtable; resolution 84 (XXV), Revitalization of the coordinating roles and responsibilities of the Regional Coordinating Mechanism; resolution 85 (XXV), Support for the work of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in the Caribbean; resolution 86 (XXV), Admission of Bermuda as an associate member of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee; resolution 87 (XXV), Admission of Curaçao as an associate member of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee; resolution 88 (XXV), Admission of Guadeloupe as an associate member of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee; resolution 89 (XXV), Admission of Martinique as an associate member of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee; and resolution 90 (XXV), Support for Caribbean small island developing States in preparation for the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States.

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