To transmit the conclusions and recommendations of the Third Meeting of Ministers of Justice or of Ministers or Attorneys General of the Americas, (REMJA-III/ doc.14/00 rev. 2), as applicable, to the organs, agencies, and entities of the inter-American system, for their implementation as appropriate.

To instruct the Permanent Council to follow up on the implementation of said conclusions and recommendations, giving special emphasis to those that are to be implemented within the framework of the OAS.

Permanent Council

To instruct the Permanent Council to take into account the conclusions and recommendations of the preparatory Meeting of Government Experts and to continue carrying out the tasks it considers necessary to prepare for CIDIP-VI.

To instruct the Permanent Council to set a date, during 2001, for CIDIP-VI, in accordance with funds allocated in the program-budget and other resources, bearing in mind the status of preparations for the Conference and the Government of Guatemala’s offer to host the meeting.

Permanent Council

General Secretariat,

To instruct the Permanent Council to promote, in the context of the dialogue on the inter-American system, participation by national institutions involved in the promotion of human rights, such as defenders of the people, defenders of the population, human rights attorneys, human rights commissioners (ombudsmen), or others with an equivalent role.

To instruct the Permanent Council to promote a substantial increase in the allocation of resources to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, in upcoming fiscal years, in recognition of the fact that the protection and promotion of human rights is a central priority of the Organization

To recommend to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, in connection with its request for ideas and suggestions on the reform process, in accordance with the provisions governing its areas of competence, and in the context of the regulatory autonomy conferred upon it by the American Convention on Human Rights in terms of the procedures followed in processing individual cases, it consider the possibility of:

1. Defining the criteria it follows for the opening of cases;

Permanent Council

To transmit this resolution to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

General Secretariat

To renew its request to the General Secretariat to continue its coordination with the United Nations General Secretariat and with other international organizations for the purposes of this resolution.

To accept and forward to the Inter-American Juridical Committee (CJI) the observations and recommendations made by the Permanent Council of the Organization on that Committee's annual report.

To request the CJI to continue studying the different aspects of the enhancement of the administration of justice in the Americas, maintaining the necessary coordination and the highest possible degree of cooperation with other organs of the Organization that work in this area, especially with the Justice Studies Center of the Americas.

To request the CJI to continue its studies on inter-American cooperation against terrorism, in particular with respect to strengthening mechanisms for legal and judicial cooperation, especially in the area of extradition, and to cooperate with the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (CICTE) when CICTE so requests.

Inter-American Juridical Committee

Inter-American Juridical Committee

To note that the CJI has included on its agenda the topic of application by the states in the Hemisphere of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and to ask it to continue its studies and to send document CJI/doc.48/99, "Rights and Duties of States under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 1982," to the United Nations Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea for comment.

To note that the CJI has included on its agenda the topic of the legal aspects of hemispheric security, and to ask it to continue its studies, with a focus on examining the current status of the OAS Charter, the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (Rio Treaty), and the American Treaty on Pacific Settlement (Pact of Bogotá).

To request the CJI to issue in due course the opinion requested by the General Assembly through resolution AG/RES. 1691 (XXIX-O/99), "International Abduction of Minors by One of Their Parents."

To welcome the decision of the CJI to hold its 56th regular meeting at OAS headquarters between March 20 and March 31, 2000, and to consider the holding of future regular meetings in special cases in other member states, in keeping with Article 105 of the OAS Charter, in order to disseminate information on and awareness of the CJI’s work more widely, bearing in mind that any regular meetings the CJI decides to hold away from its headquarters must be funded through its regular budget.

Inter-American Juridical Committee

Inter-American Juridical Committee

To reiterate the need for closer ties between the CJI and the political organs of the OAS, especially the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs of the Permanent Council.

To thank the CJI for holding the Fourth Joint Meeting with Legal Advisers of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of OAS Member States on March 23 and 24, 2000, in the framework of its 56th regular meeting, at OAS headquarters, and to encourage the CJI to continue holding meetings of this type.

Inter-American Juridical Committee

Inter-American Juridical Committee

To instruct the General Secretariat to continue, through the Secretariat for Legal Affairs, to implement the aforesaid Program, according priority to the projects and activities relating to the teaching of inter-American international law, promoting awareness of the inter-American legal system, and the legal publications program, and to report thereon periodically to the Permanent Council.

To promote, pursuant to paragraphs (a) and (c) of the Inter-American Program for the Development of International Law, a comprehensive legal information program for the consolidation and development of the Inter-American System of Legal Information, in particular with respect to the dissemination of knowledge and experience via electronic media, and to the creation and broadening of electronic networks on legal issues.

General Secretariat

To promote, in keeping with paragraphs (f), (g), (j), and (q) of the Inter-American Program for the Development of International Law, the design of programs and projects for training human resources, by putting into practice a strategy that includes the current fellowships system, the participation of universities and training institutes, and the development of pilot programs on specialized issues, fostering institutional conditions that will ensure lasting results.

To continue to conduct regional refresher courses on international law, in accordance with paragraphs (f), (g), and (j) of the Inter-American Program for the Development of International Law and, in particular, to organize over the coming year a course for the Caribbean region.

To continue, with external financial support, to stimulate the regional education program on inter-American legal instruments in the area of legal and judicial cooperation, with the participation of judges, prosecutors, law professors, attorneys, and international jurists and specialists, in pursuance of the mandates contained in paragraphs (f), (g), and (j) of the Inter-American Program for the Development of International Law.

General Secretariat

General Secretariat

To instruct the General Secretariat to continue to take the necessary steps for the implementation and dissemination of the Guidelines.

Also to reiterate the mandates assigned to the General Secretariat in resolution AG/RES. 1668 (XXIX-O/99), and to request it to report, if applicable, to the Permanent Council, through the Committee, on the implementation of that resolution.

General Secretariat

To request that the Permanent Council renew the mandate of the Working Group so that it may continue to consider the Proposed American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Populations and hold at least its second meeting before the thirty-first regular session of the General Assembly, in accordance with resources allocated in the program-budget and other resources.

To recommend to the Working Group that it follow the procedures agreed upon for suitable participation in its work by representatives of indigenous communities, so that their observations and suggestions may be considered.

Permanent Council

To request also that the General Secretariat publicize the efforts of the Working Group as necessary and consider the necessary measures to promote more representative involvement in the Working Group by the Hemisphere's indigenous community organizations.

To urge member states and the organs and agencies of the inter-American human rights system to intensify their efforts to publicize the inter-American instruments and resolutions of the Organization that protect and safeguard the work of human rights defenders, as well as the United Nations Declaration on the right and responsibility of individuals, groups, and institutions to promote and protect universally recognized human rights and fundamental freedoms.

To entrust the Permanent Council with studying the need to prepare a draft inter-American convention to prevent, punish, and eradicate racism and all forms of discrimination and intolerance, with a view to submitting the matter to the General Assembly at its thirty-first regular session for consideration; and to direct that, for this purpose, the Permanent Council may consult the organs of the inter-American system and take into account the contributions of civil society, as well as the preparatory work for the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance.

To recommend to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) that it continue to give special attention to this topic within the framework of inter-American legal instruments in force.

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

To request the Secretary General to continue to intensify efforts to pursue joint activities between the General Secretariat of the OAS and the General Secretariat of the Central American Integration System (SICA).

To renew its request to the Secretary General to continue and strengthen activities of technical cooperation between the two General Secretariats.

To receive with satisfaction the report of the Permanent Council on the observations and recommendations of the member states on the Annual Report of the IACHR and to transmit that report to the Commission.

To instruct the Permanent Council to promote, in upcoming fiscal periods, a substantial increase in the resources allocated to the Commission, on the basis of the recognition that the promotion and protection of human rights is a fundamental priority of the Organization.

To receive and transmit to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights the observations and recommendations of the OAS Permanent Council on the annual report

To recommend to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) that it continue to pay the utmost attention to cases in which the human rights of migrant workers or their families have been violated.

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

To request the Commission to provide the Special Rapporteur for the rights of all migrant workers and members of their families with the necessary and appropriate means to perform his or her duties.

To recommend to the Inter-American Council for Integral Development that it support projects and activities to benefit all migrant workers and their families, as an expression of inter-American solidarity, an essential element in the integral development of the member states.

To accept the recommendation of the Chairman of the SCT, based on his consultations with member states of the SCT, to maintain the status quo, that is, to maintain the existence of the SCT without convening the Committee.

To instruct the General Secretariat to continue providing analytical support and technical assistance through the Trade Unit, and conducting related studies as part of the Tripartite Committee or as requested by the respective bodies established in the Ministerial Declarations of San José, under the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) process.

To instruct the General Secretariat to continue providing technical assistance related to FTAA issues to member countries that request it, particularly the smaller economies, as requested by the Trade Ministers in the Ministerial Declarations of San José.

To instruct the Permanent Council to continue to provide the appropriate existing resources necessary to respond positively to requests for technical support from FTAA entities, including reallocation for this purpose if necessary.

To instruct the General Secretariat to submit, by November 15, 2000, the 2001 annual Work Plan of activities of the Trade Unit to CEPCIDI for its consideration and approval.

To instruct the General Secretariat to continue providing semi-annual written progress reports on the activities of the Trade Unit, including information on its level of budget execution to the Permanent Council and CEPCIDI for their review.

To instruct the Foreign Trade Information System (SICE) to continue its work in providing trade and trade-related information to the Hemisphere through its Internet web site; to continue its work in support of the FTAA process by maintaining, as a member of the Tripartite Committee, the official FTAA web site; to maintain, as a member of the Tripartite Committee, on an ongoing basis a calendar of deadlines established by the Negotiating Groups for inputs from delegations; and to manage, as a member of the Tripartite Committee, the Document Distribution Service (DDS), a secure, confidential, instant, and reliable distribution system and historical archive of the FTAA negotiation process documents.

General Secretariat

General Secretariat

Permanent Council

General Secretariat, Permanent Executive Committee of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development

General Secretariat

Permanent Executive Committee of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development

General Secretariat

To instruct the General Secretariat to continue, through the UPD and in accordance with the resources allocated in the program-budget and other resources, to conduct studies and seminars and to promote or sponsor efforts on democracy-related topics adopted at the Summits of the Americas.

To instruct the Permanent Council, acting through the Working Group on Representative Democracy, to:

a. Study the updated annual inventory of activities related to the promotion of democracy;

 

 

b. Consider presenting the report on activities related to execution of the mandates of the Summits of the Americas related to democracy;

c. Examine the progress reports on the activities carried out by the Unit for the Promotion of Democracy, including information on the level of budget execution, for which projects will be presented to the Working Group by the General Secretariat within 45 days following the end of each trimester, and include its comments and observation in its annual report;

4. Consider periodically inviting experts to give presentations on topics selected by the Working Group, including, among others, electoral participation, political parties, decentralization, institutional weaknesses, and access to information; and
5. Study and approve, by the end of 2000, the UPD Work Plan for 2001, making sure that said plan includes activities in support of the mandates related to promotion and defense of democracy, and assigned to the OAS, that arose out of the Plans of Action of the Summits of the Americas.

Permanent Council

To request that the General Secretariat:

a. Regularly update, through the Unit for the Promotion of Democracy, the annual inventory on the activities related to the promotion of representative democracy carried out in the Organization and to do so with collaboration from different organs, agencies, and entities working in this area;

b. Foster closer cooperation between the UPD and the various organs, agencies, and entities of the OAS working in areas related to the promotion and defense of representative democracy; and

 

c. Give semi-annual presentations to the Permanent Council on its activities with regard to the democracy-related mandates from the Summits of the Americas.

To request the General Secretariat to offer, taking into account budgetary constraints and the priorities established by the Permanent Council, technical advice in the preparatory work for the meeting mentioned in the preceding paragraph, mindful that on this occasion the legislators will consider, among other matters, the question of a possible tie with the Organization.

To instruct the Permanent Council to continue to foster the exchange of experiences and information among the OAS and international organizations, the private sector, and civil society organizations, among other pertinent entities, in order to coordinate, strengthen, and identify cooperation activities among the member states in the area.

To request the Permanent Council to promote the establishment of a specific voluntary fund to finance activities aimed at providing the necessary institutional support to the States Parties for implementing the Inter-American Convention against Corruption.

To instruct the Permanent Council, in following up on the Inter-American Program for Cooperation in the Fight against Corruption, to study corporate social responsibility with a view to defining precisely its scope and content in the inter-American context, to examining and disseminating national and international experiences undertaken to address the issue, and to promoting the exchange of information and experiences among the member states, international financial institutions, other international organizations, the private sector, and civil society organizations.

To instruct the Permanent Council, in following up on the Inter-American Program for Cooperation in the Fight against Corruption, to address, inter alia, the following subjects: training, experience acquired by national institutions, public sector procurement, incompatibilities between public office and private sector interests, and analysis of criminal laws on corruption and related offenses.

To request the Permanent Council to analyze existing regional and international follow-up mechanisms with a view to recommending, by the end of the year, the most appropriate model that States Parties could use, if they think fit, to monitor implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption. That recommendation will be transmitted to the States Parties to the Convention for them to choose what they consider to be the most appropriate course of action.

Permanent Council

Permanent Council

Permanent Council

Permanent Council

To establish a permanent specific fund financed by voluntary contributions, to be called the Special Fund for Strengthening Democracy, which will support activities to preserve, strengthen, and consolidate representative democracy in the Hemisphere.

To instruct the Secretary General, subject to prior consideration by the Permanent Council, to use the resources of the Special Fund to respond in a timely fashion, with strict respect for the principle of nonintervention embodied in the Charter of the Organization, to a request for assistance by a member state affected by situations that, in the view of the state involved, affect the development of the democratic process or the exercise of power by the democratically elected government.

General Secretariat

To support the initiative of seeking a common position on the part of the General Secretariat and the representatives of its staff concerning the Organization’s career service and to request the Secretary General to make efforts to present a proposal on the matter as soon as possible.

To instruct the Permanent Council to complete the study of possible changes in the career service and related aspects of personnel policy, and to adopt, ad referendum of the General Assembly, such amendments to the General Standards and the Staff Rules as are necessary to implement a career service system and a personnel policy more in keeping with the needs and interests of the Organization and with the principles established in the Charter.

Permanent Council

To transfer to the Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development (IACD) responsibility for implementation of the following mandates:

1. To make recommendations on the Statutes of the Capital Fund for OAS Fellowship and Training Programs and other instruments for mobilizing resources for fellowship and training programs and to submit them to the Permanent Executive Committee of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CEPCIDI) for approval by no later than October 1, 2000;
2. To develop by October 1, 2000, a plan of action for identifying external funds to enable the Special Fellowships for the Caribbean Program to be extended to other member states; and
3. To fulfill, by no later than November 2000, the mandate given in operative paragraph 5 of resolution AG/RES. 1628 (XXIX-O/99) regarding fundraising activities.

To instruct CEPCIDI to consider the advisability of holding and, if deemed appropriate, of convening in the year 2001, a special meeting of authorities of the member states responsible for training and fellowships, with a view to proposing a plan of action for the more effective use of the resources of the OAS Fellowship and Training Programs and increasing their impact on human resource development in the region in the 21st century, taking into account the Strategic Plan for Partnership for Development and the inter-American programs.

To abolish the Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Agriculture (ICMA) and recognize the Inter-American Board of Agriculture (IABA) as the primary ministerial forum within the OAS for analyzing and building consensus on policies and strategic priorities for the improvement of agriculture and rural life in the Hemisphere.

Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture

To urge the organs, agencies, and entities of the inter-American system to continue working to achieve full and equal participation by women in development and in decision-making process, in coordination with the Inter-American Commission of Women.

To urge the Executive Secretariat to redouble its efforts to increase the amount of contributions and diversify sources of funding.

To invite CICAD to continue its collaboration with the Consultative Committee of the Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and Other Related Materials so as to promote its full application

Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission

To instruct the CIM to serve as the organ for follow-up, coordination, and evaluation of the Inter-American Program and the actions taken to implement it.

To urge the OAS General Secretariat to see that the gender perspective is incorporated into all work, projects, and programs of the organs, agencies, and entities of the OAS in fulfillment of the Program.

To instruct the Permanent Council to propose to the General Assembly, at its thirty-first regular session, the allocation of technical, human, and financial resources, within the budget of the Organization, so that both the General Secretariat and the CIM may implement this Program.

To urge the CIM Permanent Secretariat to include in the draft program-budget for 2002 a breakdown of the activities needed for implementation of and follow-up to the Inter-American Program.

To urge the General Secretariat to assign the CIM, out of the program-budget for 2001, the human and material resources needed to implement this Program and to comply with resolution AG/RES. 1592 (XXVIII-O/98), "Status of Women in the Americas and Strengthening of the Inter-American Commission of Women."

To urge the organs of the OAS and specialized organizations of the inter-American system to provide the support necessary to implement the Inter-American Program.

General Secretariat

Permanent Council

Inter-American Commission of Women

General Secretariat

All the organs, agencies, and entities

To request that the OAS General Secretariat report to the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (CICTE), at CICTE's second regular session, on the fulfillment of the tasks entrusted to it by CICTE, which are transcribed in the Work Program of CICTE, attached to document CP/doc.3268/00 as Annex C.

To note the observations and recommendations of the Permanent Council on the annual reports and to transmit them to the organs, agencies, and entities of the Organization.

To instruct the Council for Integral Development (CIDI), through its appropriate subsidiary bodies, to keep this topic under review, bearing in mind the need to avoid duplication of work in other fora.

To instruct the General Secretariat to seek to mobilize resources to assist member states in their efforts to adapt to climate change.

General Secretariat

To instruct the Permanent Council to place priority on continuing the studies on the organization, working methods, and operations of the General Secretariat, and to consider in that context inter-alia, the document of the General Secretary "Proposal to Create a Secretariat for Political Affairs," (GETC/FORMOEA-151/00 corr. 1 and GETC/FORMOEA-151/00 add. 1), authorizing it to take the pertinent decisions in accordance with the budgetary provisions and the General Standards to govern the operations of the General Secretariat.

To encourage the governments to consider the recommendations of the Inter-American Commission of Women in the process of preparing the Political Declaration and Plan of Action of the Third Summit of the Americas; and to request the CIM to prepare recommendations and provide technical support for this purpose.

To instruct the General Secretariat and the CIM to disseminate this resolution to all the organs, agencies, and entities of the inter-American system to ensure that they will take it into account in the preparation and implementation of their work-plans and programs.

General Secretariat, Inter-American Commission of Women

To urge the organs, agencies, and entities of the inter-American system, when they discuss child-related issues, to include consideration of the international abduction of minors by one of their parents.

Inter-American Children's Institute

To request that the Permanent Council, through its Committee on Hemispheric Security (the Committee), study the feasibility of developing a declaration on all aspects of the excessive and destabilizing accumulation and transfer of small arms and light weapons, in the context of the work being carried out by the United Nations in relation to the United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects.

To instruct the Permanent Council, should it see fit, to issue such a declaration through the Committee for adoption at the thirty-first regular session of the General Assembly.

To request that the Secretary General transmit this resolution to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Permanent Council

General Secretariat

To reiterate its mandates to the Permanent Council and to the General Secretariat contained in the following resolutions:

1. Confidence- and Security-Building in the Americas [AG/RES. 1623 (XXIX-O/99)], operative paragraphs 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 15;

Permanent Council

To consider all aspects related to the proliferation of and illicit trafficking in small arms and light weapons and, to that end:

a. To instruct the Permanent Council to discuss, through the Committee, with the assistance of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission, the advisability of undertaking a study concerning small arms and light weapons brokering and transit; and

b. To instruct the Permanent Council to hold, through the Committee, an informational meeting on the 2001 United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in all its aspects.

To instruct the General Secretariat to:

1. Continue to provide the Committee with the administrative and technical support necessary for it to fulfill the various mandates assigned to it;
2. Coordinate with the Inter-American Defense Board in the preparation of a complete and updated inventory of confidence- and security-building measures based on reports presented by member states pursuant to the aforementioned resolution AG/RES. 1623 (XXIX-O/99); and
3. Continue its work via a cooperative communication network to exchange information on confidence- and security-building measures.

Permanent Council

General Secretariat

To instruct the Permanent Council to see that the Committee continues to participate in, conduct consultations, and exchange experiences and information with the Conferences of Ministers of Defense of the Americas, as well as with other regional and international fora as mentioned in resolution AG/RES. 1623 (XXIX-O/99), including the United Nations and its pertinent agencies, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Association of South East-Asian Nations Regional Forum, and the Organization for African Unity.

To request the Permanent Council to hold, through the Committee, the next round of OAS-OSCE exchange of experiences at OSCE headquarters.

To instruct the General Secretariat to carry out the activities mentioned in this resolution within resources allocated in the program-budget and other resources.

To request the Permanent Council to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-first regular session on the implementation of this resolution.

Permanent Council

General Secretariat

Permanent Council

To instruct the General Secretariat to continue its maximum efforts, through the Unit for the Promotion of Democracy, to provide assistance and obtain contributions from countries and organizations to the specific fund for the mine-clearing programs and programs of comprehensive action against antipersonnel mines executed by Peru and Ecuador in their own territories, for the common purpose of freeing the Western Hemisphere of antipersonnel mines.

To adopt at its thirty-first regular session a quota assessment scale which is fair and equitable and which adequately reflects the member states’ ability to pay.

To establish that the scale of quota assessments for the OAS for 2002-2004 shall:

1. Be determined by using as a basis the scale approved by the United Nations for 2001-2003;
2. Be adjusted in accordance with the discussions carried out in the Permanent Council and the views expressed by the heads of delegation in the dialogue on this issue; and
3. Be set using a minimum and maximum level of individual quotas, to be agreed upon by the Permanent Council before December 1, 2000.

Permanent Council, General Secretariat

To instruct the General Secretariat to present to the Permanent Council, within 60 days following UN approval of its new scale of quotas for 2001-2003, a proposal for the establishment of OAS quotas for 2002-2004.

To request the Secretary General to present a report to the Permanent Council, prior to the thirty-first regular session of the General Assembly, on the status of signatures and ratifications of the Convention.

To request the General Secretariat to continue to provide, within the funds allocated in the program-budget and other resources, the administrative and secretariat support required by the Consultative Committee for the performance of its functions and to take the necessary steps to that end, in accordance with resolution AG/RES. 1645 (XXIX-O/99) and the agreement reached in that regard among the members of the Consultative Committee.

To request the IADB to continue to provide technical assistance to PADCA.

To urge the General Secretariat to continue to provide to the Central American countries, within resources allocated in the program-budget and other resources, the support necessary to continue the mine-clearing programs, as well as those aimed at mine awareness education, rehabilitation of victims, and the socioeconomic reclamation of demined areas.

To reiterate its request to the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) to facilitate, as part of its cooperation program, and in keeping with the Strategic Plan for Partnership for Development 1997-2001, the development of programs of socioeconomic and educational support to communities in Central America where antipersonnel mine-clearing has been completed.

To reiterate its request to the organs, agencies, and entities of the inter-American system to continue to collaborate with these programs.

To request the Secretary General to transmit this resolution to the UN Secretary-General, and to other international organizations as he deems appropriate.

General Secretariat

Inter-American Council for Integral Development

All the organs, agencies, and entities

General Secretariat

To reaffirm the mandate assigned to the Permanent Council to coordinate, through its Special Committee on Inter-American Summits Management, the activities assigned to the OAS by the Summit of the Americas, held in Miami, and by the Second Summit of the Americas, held in Santiago, and, in coordination with the Inter-American Committee on Sustainable Development of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI), the Summit of the Americas on Sustainable Development, held in Santa Cruz de la Sierra.

To instruct the organs, agencies, and entities of the Organization to:

All the organs, agencies, and entities

To instruct the General Secretariat, through its Office of Summit Follow-Up, to continue to preserve the institutional memory of the Summits process, in particular by compiling and disseminating information on Summit initiatives through the Summit of the Americas Information Network, and, where possible, to expand these efforts.

To instruct the General Secretariat, through its Office of Summit Follow-Up, to continue providing technical support and Summit-related information to the Special Committee on Inter-American Summits Management, to the Summit Implementation Review Group and, as appropriate, to ministerial meetings and processes of the Hemisphere, as the mandates of the Second Summit continue to be implemented, and as the member states make the necessary preparations for the Third Summit of the Americas.

To direct that the mandates in this resolution be executed in accordance with resources allocated in the program-budget and other resources.

General Secretariat

All the organs, agencies, and entities

To send to Peru, immediately, a Mission comprising the Chair of the General Assembly and the Secretary General of the OAS with the purpose of exploring, with the Government of Peru and other sectors of the political community, options and recommendations aimed at further strengthening democracy in that country, in particular measures to reform the electoral process, including reform of judicial and constitutional tribunals, as well as strengthening freedom of the press.

To instruct the Secretary General to reformulate the 2001 proposed program-budget and present it to the Preparatory Committee no later than August 15, 2000, taking into account the following:

1. The need to produce a Regular Fund program-budget that does not exceed $76,000,000;
2. The discussion on the priorities identified by member states, which took place at the Permanent Council meeting of May 22, 2000;

c. The dialogue on the financial situation of the Organization which took place at the thirtieth regular session of the General Assembly, in Windsor, Canada;

4. The resolutions and decisions with budgetary implications adopted by the General Assembly at its thirtieth regular session, in Windsor, Canada; and
5. The comments and recommendations of the Board of External Auditors for the year ending December 31, 1999.

To instruct the Secretary General, as Chairman of the IACNDR, to continue to support the activities of the IACNDR, especially through its three working groups, with the aim of securing the necessary financial resources, ensuring greater preparedness, and reducing vulnerability to the extent possible within the countries of the Hemisphere.

To keep the Permanent Council informed of the on-going work of the IACNDR.

General Secretariat

To establish a permanent specific fund to provide member states of the Organization that so request with financial resources to assist with defraying the costs of proceedings previously agreed to by the parties for the peaceful resolution of territorial disputes among member states.

To instruct the Secretary General to promote the raising and mobilization of funds from member states, permanent observers, other states, international financial institutions, national and international organizations, and other entities and persons for the financing of the fund.

General Secretariat

To instruct the Secretary General to take steps regarding the allocation of the fund's resources, after they have been considered by the Permanent Council, until the guidelines indicated in preceding paragraph 3 have been adopted, and in keeping with operative paragraphs 1 and 2 of this resolution. The General Secretariat will administer the fund in accordance with applicable provisions of the General Standards to Govern the Operations of the General Secretariat.

To instruct the Permanent Council:

1. to continue evaluating the merits of adopting the five proposals set out in Annex B of this Resolution, that were also set out in the Annex to the Draft Resolution entitled "Measures to Encourage the Timely Payment of Quotas, AG/doc/ 3871/00 Corr.1 (May 30, 2000), and which were pending consensus;
2. to examine additional measures to encourage the timely payment of quotas; and

c. to present a status report to the Special Session of the General Assembly to meet no later than October 15, 2000, for the purpose of adopting the 2001 Program Budget.

To instruct the General Secretariat to include in its monthly report to the Permanent Council on quota payments the list of countries in each category as defined in Annex A of this resolution.

General Secretariat

To reiterate the call made to the member states, agencies, and organizations of the inter-American system, in particular the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), and the Pan American Health Organization, as well as nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) involved in this area, to intensify their cooperation with efforts aimed at preventing, reducing, and repairing the damage caused by "El Niño."

To instruct the Permanent Council to prepare and initiate the necessary studies for holding a meeting of ministers or authorities at the highest level responsible for policies on decentralization, local government and citizen participation in municipal government in the Hemisphere, to facilitate exchange of experiences and the development of a common frame of reference on public policy for strengthening the process of decentralization and consolidation of local governance and citizen participation at the municipal and community levels.

To request that the Permanent Council, on the basis of the above-mentioned studies, carry out the preparations for this meeting with the technical support of the General Secretariat, and in particular of the Unit for the Promotion of Democracy.

To entrust the Permanent Council with taking the final decision on convening and determining the date and place for the meeting, taking into account the resources assigned in the program-budget, as well as other resources.

Permanent Council

Permanent Council

To request that the Secretary General invite Permanent Observers and donor organizations to contribute to the Foundation.

To instruct the Permanent Council to continue the work of the Special Group in order to facilitate the implementation of the conclusions and recommendations adopted during REMJA-III.