sentences:  Besides administering the CARIFTA Agreement, the Council was also empowered to settle disputes arising from the CARIFTA Agreement (whether between member territories for originating from within a member territory) and thus it also acted as tribunal when necessary.In that way it could authorize any member territory to take interim safe-guard measures and suspend its obligations towards another member territory if the second member territory was determined by the Council not to be fulfilling the its obligations stemming from the CARIFTA Agreement.The Commonwealth Caribbean Regional Secretariat was the principal administrative organ of the Association, being established under Article 28 (3) of the Agreement, and it could be entrusted by the Council with such functions or delegated authority as the Council considered necessary to assist it in accomplishing its tasks.