| There was no subregion without at least one such initiative and Western Africa is a clear frontrunner with 7 such initiatives. |
| In the worst cases, what began as a local conflict quickly engulfs surrounding countries or an entire subregion or region. |
| Return to a normal state of affairs in Côte d'Ivoire is thus urgently needed for its people and for the West African subregion as a whole. |
| For Jamaica and other countries in the Caribbean subregion, the cumulative impact of those challenges bordered on calamitous. |
| Urgent attention must be given to these socio-economic challenges to prevent them from further destabilizing the subregion. |
| As a result, the severity of the impact and the entrenchment of the ATS problem remain matters of concern in this subregion. |
