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with a view to permanently installing technical
and human resource capacity to engage in
independent destructions.
UNLIREC also assisted the Government of
Barbados,fromMay27-31,2013,inthedestruction
of 1,500 seized and obsolete weapons and 1.9
tonnes of small arms ammunition, time-expired
CS gas, anti-riot grenades and other explosives.
During the period June 10-14 2013, the Centre
and the Government of Guyana conducted a
joint national baseline assessment on capacities
and needs in the area of stockpile management
and destruction.
On May 28, 2013, Vice President of the
United States of America, Joe Biden met with
Presidents, Prime Ministers, and senior ministry
personnel from 15 Caribbean nations in Port
of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The meeting
discussed comprehensive regional partnerships
to improve citizen security in the Caribbean.
• Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI)
Working together in support of the Caribbean
BasinSecurity Initiative(CBSI),theUnitedStates
(US) andnationsof theCaribbeanarecombating
the drug trade and other transnational crimes
that threaten regional security. This partnership
fulfils the commitment to deepen cooperation in
regional security made at the 2009 Summit of
the Americas by US President, Barack Obama.
CBSI ispartof an integratedcitizensecurityeffort
that includes the Merida Initiative in Mexico, the
Central America Regional Security Initiative, and
the Colombia Strategic Development Initiative.
The United States, CARICOM member nations,
and the Dominican Republic are improving
citizen safety throughout the Caribbean by
working together to:
• Substantially reduce illicit trafficking,
• Increase public safety and security, and
• Promote social justice.
7. S
OCIAL
P
OLICY
D
EVELOPMENT
The
Economic
Commission
for
Latin
America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) sub-
regional headquarters for the Caribbean,
held a Caribbean Forum entitled “Shaping a
Sustainable Development Agenda to Address
the Caribbean Reality in the Twenty-first
Century”, to discuss the challenges being faced
by Caribbean Small Island Developing States
(SIDS) and to provide input in defining a post-
2015 development agenda
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. This forum, which
was held in Bogota, Columbia on March 5–6,
2013, agreed on the following guidelines:
• Poverty eradication, with specific focus
on vulnerable groups, inter-generational
poverty, and ensuring the sustainability of
gains made in poverty reduction;
• Participation of all segments of the
population, including civil society, private
sector, trade unions and the most vulnerable
segments, in the development process;
• Sustained, inclusive and equitable growth to
the benefit of all citizens;
• People-centred development;
• Applicable regional and global agendas;
• A comprehensive development agenda;
• The recognition of the vulnerabilities of SIDS;
• Enhanced and inclusive governance;
• The finite natural resources of the sub-
region.
It is proposed that the nine aforementioned
guidelines influence the post-2015 development
agenda for the Caribbean in the 21st century,
which is expected to maintain and expand
the social, economic, and environmental
development of the sub-region’s human and
natural resources.
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