AG/RES. 1461 (XXVII-O/97)

EXTENSION OF THE SPECIAL FELLOWSHIPS FOR THE CARIBBEAN PROGRAM

(Resolution adopted at the sixth plenary session, held on June 4, 1997)

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

CONSIDERING:

That, in resolution AG/RES. 1387 (XXVI-O/96), the General Assembly resolved to extend the undergraduate Special Fellowships for the Caribbean Program (SPECAF) to benefit other Caribbean Basin states, including Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and the Central American countries (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama), and Bolivia, Ecuador, and Paraguay; and

That funds for expanding the SPECAF Program are to come from external sources and other financing mechanisms,

RESOLVES:

1. To request the General Secretariat to submit to the Permanent Council, no later than November 1997, a detailed plan of action for executing the mandate set forth in operative paragraph 2 of resolution AG/RES. 1387 (XXVI-O/96).

2. To request the General Secretariat to present quarterly progress reports on the application of the mandate set forth in the preceding paragraph, which include details on the external resources obtained.