The communique for the 2013 Overseas Territories Joint Ministerial Council resolved to strengthen the work of audit bodies and public accounts committees or their equivalents with the support of the UK National Audit Office. This provides further impetus for strengthening the independence and capacity of audit offices to delvier their important mandates across the overseas territories, and is consistent with the December 2011 UN General Assembly resolution and the communique from the 2013 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting which supported the role of audit offices and the need to ensure that they are indpendent and have the capacity to fulfil their mandates effectively