The IAEA has participated in the Ninth Caribbean Community United Nations General Meeting on 20-21 July 2017, in New York, USA.
The meeting, which takes place every two years, is held to discuss how the United Nations and its associated organizations can better support the strategic goals of the Caribbean region. The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the UN have worked closely in pursuit of General Assembly Resolution 69/265 that articulates a goal for the organizations’ Secretaries General to “continue to promote and expand cooperation with their respective mandates, so as to increase the capacity of the two organisations to attain their objectives and to seek answers to global challenges.”[1]
António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations and Secretary-General and Chief Executive Officer of the Caribbean Community, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, attended, together with high-level UN representatives. The meeting included a number of working sessions co-chaired by Assistant Secretary-General Ambassador Granderson and the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr Tayé-Brook Zerihoun. Sessions also included a follow-up to the Eighth General Meeting which took place in Guyana in 2015, in which the IAEA also participated, as well as several sub-sessions on specific areas in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals.
