Twenty-sixth session Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee

The objectives of CDCC are:

• To promote and strengthen economic and social cooperation and integration among the countries of the Caribbean and with Latin America
• To promote the sharing of information and experiences among its membership
• To promote common positions and strategies on economic and social issues among Caribbean nations, and on their relations with third countries, and to present those positions to international forums and agencies

1. Opening of the session
   1. Opening ceremony
   2. Election of officers
   3. Adoption of the Agenda
   4. Procedural matters and organization of work
2. The debt burden: balancing adjustment with sustainable development in the Caribbean
3. Preparing for an ageing population in the Caribbean
4. Matters related to the programme of work
5. Thirty-sixth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the
   
   Caribbean (ECLAC)
6. Welcome of new associate members of ECLAC to the Caribbean Development and
   
   Cooperation Committee
7. Date and venue of the eighteenth meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean
   
   Development and Cooperation Committee
8. Consideration and adoption of resolutions
9. Other matters
10. Closure of the session