AGREEMENT

BETWEEN

THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY

AND

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC

OF CHILE

TO ESTABLISH A STANDING JOINT

COMMISSION ON

CONSULTATION, COOPERATION AND

COORDI NATION

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Government of the Republic

of Chile hereinafter referred to a s "the Parties",

SHARING a common desire for the promotion and encouragement

of political, trade, economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation

for the purpose of strengthening relations between the Parties;

RECOGNIZING the importance of regional integration movements

as a framework for the development of the countries participating in these

agreements;

RECOGNIZING also the desirability of establishing permanent

and effective links between the countries' of Latin America and the

Caribbean in the search for solutions to their social and economic problems,

by establishing the appropriate mechanisms therefor;

CONVINCED that the general recognition by all nations of a set

of basic principles which ought to govern their relations would contribute

to a just and lasting peace;

DECLARING their confidence in and support for the

Organisation of American States as well a s the goals of those United

Nations organisations which a r e concerned with the problems affecting the

developing countries;

CONSCIOUS of the desirability of giving to any scheme of

cooperation between the Parties, special consideration to the needs of the

most deprived areas of Chile and to the needs of the less developed s ta tes

of CARICOM in order to accelerate their development and to improve the

living conditions of their people;

CONVINCED that effective solutions to their mutual problems

would be facilitated by systematic studies at the technical level and closer

cooperation in trade, economic, scientific, technical and cultural fields,

which would be translated into feasible projects;

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

ARTICLE I

ESTABLISHMENT OF A CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY-CHILE

STANDING JOINT COMMISSION ON CONSULTATION,

COOPERATION AND COORDINATION

The Parties agree to establish the "Standing Joint Commission

on Consultation, Cooperation and Coordination", hereinafter in this

Agreement referred to a s the "Joint Commission".

ARTICLE I1

COMPOSITION OF THE JOINT COMMISSION

1. The Joint Commission shall consist of the representatives of

both Parties.

2. In connection with the work of the Joint Commission, the

Caribbean Community Secretariat and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of

Chile shall perform administrative, technical and coordination functions on

behalf of the respective Parties.

3. The Joint Commission may establish subsidiary bodies with such

functions as may be entrusted to them by the Joint Commission.

ARTICLE 111

OBJECTIVES

1. The objectives of the Joint Commission shall be to promote and

develop closer relations between the Parties in political, trade, economic,

scientific, technical and cultural fields.

2. The Pa r t i e s will endeavour to seek greater mutual

understanding of each other's views as well as coordination of their

positions in international fora.

3. The Joint Commission shall have particular responsibility for

the analysis and follow up of specific cooperation agreements concluded

between the Parties.

ARTICLE IV

MEETINGS OF THE JOINT COMMISSION

1. The Joint Commission shall meet a t least once biennially a t such

date o r dates as may be agreed between the Parties. The Parties shall use

their best endeavours to synchronise the dates of the meeting of the Joint

Commission with those of the Management Committees to be established for

each Agreement concluded on specific areas of cooperation between the

Parties.

2. Meetings of the Joint Commission shall be held alternately a t

the Headquarters of the Caribbean Community and in Chile or in such other

place a s may be agreed between the Parties.

3. The agenda for each meeting of the Joint Commission shall be

settled by both Parties a t least two months before the meetitlg.

4. The decisions of the Joint Commission shall have the s ta tus of

recommendations to the Parties to this Agreement.

ARTICLE V

ENTRY INTO FORCE

This Agreement shall enter into force on the date of the last

notification of one contracting Party to the other that t h e necessary legal

requirements for its entry into force have been complied with.

ARTICLE VI

DENUNCIATION

I. Either Party may denounce the Agreement upon written notice

of its decision addressed to the other Party. The termination of the

Agreement shall become effective on the expiration of six months after the

date on which the notification of denunciation is received by the other

Party.

2. In case of denunciation of the present Agreement, the

programmes and projects in progress shall not be affected thereby and

shall continue until their completion.

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ARTICLE VII

INAUGURAL MEETING

The Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, in

collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile shall, as scan a s

practicable after this Agreement enters into force, make the necessary

arrangements for convening the Inaugural Meeting of the Joint Commission.

I N WITNESS WHEREOF, the duly undersigned Plenipotentiaries

being duly authorised thereunto, have signed the present Agreement.

DONE a t Kingston, Jamaica on the Thirteenth day of May one

thousand nine hundred and ninety-six, i n duplicate in the English and

~ p a h i s h languages, both texts being equally auth

/Lo&/- ON BEHALF OF

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THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY