再次表示深为关切 2017 年在加勒比海非自治领土发生的飓风、自然现象或其他极端天气事件数量和规模及其破坏性影响，其后果是造成生命损失，对这些领土的脆弱社会造成经济、社会和环境负面影响，并阻碍它们实现可持续发展，特别是在安圭拉、英属维尔京群岛、特克斯和凯科斯群岛和美属维尔京群岛以及波多黎各，特别委员会讨论了这种情况，
Reaffirming its deep concern at the number and scale of hurricanes, natural phenomena or other extreme weather events and their devastating impact in 2017 in the Non-Self-Governing Territories in the Caribbean Sea, resulting in the loss of life and negative economic, social and environmental consequences for their vulnerable societies and hampering the achievement of sustainable development in these Territories, in particular in Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the United States Virgin Islands, as well as in Puerto Rico, whose situation is addressed in the Special Committee,