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2017 Caribbean regional seminar

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, 16 - 18 May 2017

[All documents are in PDF format. Discussion papers and statements are posted as submitted.]

General

• Guidelines and Rules of Procedure (A/AC.109/2017/19)
• Agenda (CRS/2017/CRP.1)
• List of Participants (CRS/2017/CRP.13)

Secretary-General

• Message to the Seminar

Chair

• Opening statement [in Spanish]
• Closing statement

Host Country (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)

• Closing statement

Statements by Non-Self-Governing Territories (as submitted)

1. Statement of Mr. Daniel Aga Tapaau (American Samoa)
2. Elements for statement of Mr. Michael Victor Summers (Falkland Islands(Malvinas))
3. Statement of Mr. Manuel Terai (French Polynesia) [in French and English]
4. Statement of Mr. Joseph Bossano (Gibraltar)
5. Statement of Ms. Amanda Francel Blas (Guam)
6. Statement of Mr. Ahmed Boukhari (Frente Polisario) (Western Sahara)

Statements by the Administering Powers (as submitted)

1. Statement of the representative of France [in French]

Discussion Papers from Experts (as submitted)

1. Discussion paper of Mr. Alejandro Betts [in Spanish]
2. Discussion paper of Mr. Michael Lujan Bevacqua
3. Discussion paper of Ms. Judith Bourne
4. Discussion paper of Ms. Jessica Byron
5. Discussion paper of Mr. Sergei Cherniavsky
6. Discussion paper of Mr. Carlyle Corbin
7. Discussion paper of Mr. Mickael Forrest [in French]
8. Discussion paper of Ms. Stephanie Graff on behalf of Mr. Roch Wamytan [in French]
9. Discussion paper of Ms. Wilma Reveron-Collazo [in Spanish]

Statements by Regional Organizations (as submitted)

1. Statement by the Melanesian Spearhead Group

Statements by Member States (as submitted)

1. Statement of the representative of Algeria
2. Statement of the representative of Antigua and Barbuda
3. Statement of the representative of Argentina [in Spanish]
4. Statement of the representative of Cuba [in Spanish]
5. Statement of the representative of Indonesia
6. Statement of the representative of Morocco [in French]
7. Statement of the representative of Papua New Guinea
8. Statement of the representative of the Russian Federation
9. Statement of the representative of Sierra Leone
10. Statement of the representative of Spain [in Spanish]
11. Statement of the representative of Zimbabwe

Statements by United Nations Funds and Programmes & Organizations of the United Nations System (as submitted)

1. Statement of the representative of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
2. Joint statement of the representatives of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

Press Releases

• Delegates Commend Innovative Ideas on Quest for Self-Determination, as Caribbean Regional Seminar on Decolonization Concludes
• Speakers at Caribbean Regional Seminar Call for Effective Approaches in Fulfilling Decolonization Mandate, Urging United Nations to End Long Impasse
• Advancing Decolonization Agenda ‘Our Collective Responsibility’ Requiring Cooperation By All, Secretary-General Tells Caribbean Regional Seminar
• Secretary-General Confirms His Commitment to Decolonization Agenda in Message for Opening of Caribbean Regional Seminar
• Special Committee on Decolonization to Hold Caribbean Regional Seminar in Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, 16 to 18 May 2017