United Nations approves resolution on cooperation with SELA

It reaffirms the evolution of the close cooperation that has been intensifying between SELA and the United Nations System.
The United Nations General Assembly, at its 75th Session, adopted by consensus of its 193 Member States, on 23 November, a resolution on "Cooperation between the United Nations (UN) and the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA)", which was presented by the Delegation of Peru.

Through this decision, co-sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean countries, the General Assembly urges the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) to further deepen its coordination and mutual support activities with SELA, while promoting joint work with specialized agencies and other organizations, agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations System; in particular, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).

It also requests the World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), to continue intensifying their support and deepen their cooperation relations with SELA's activities, in order to jointly contribute to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and all its Objectives and Goals.

The text highlights developments in the close cooperation bonds that have intensifying between SELA and the United Nations System, which is reflected in the implementation of the regional action plan for the application of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, in particular through the Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas and the Caribbean. It also recognises the reports regularly prepared by SELA on public policies and the measures taken by its Member States to address the COVID-19 pandemic.

Finally, the UN Secretary-General was requested to submit, at the UN Seventy-sixth Session, a report on the implementation of the aforementioned resolution.