OEA/Ser.P AG/RES. 1824 (XXXI-O/01) 5 June 2001 Original: Spanish SUPPORT FOR AND FOLLOW-UP TO THE SUMMITS OF THE AMERICAS PROCESS (Resolution adopted at the third plenary session, held on June 5, 2001; subject to review by the Style Committee) THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, HAVING SEEN the annual report of the Permanent Council on the Report of the Special Committee on Inter-American Summits Management 2000-2001 (CP/doc.3485/01), presented pursuant to resolution AG/RES. 1752 (XXX-O/00), "Support for and Follow-up to the Summits of the Americas Process"; BEARING IN MIND the Summits initiatives emanating from the First Summit of the Americas (Miami, 1994); the Summit Conference on Sustainable Development (Santa Cruz de la Sierra, 1996); the Second Summit of the Americas (Santiago, 1998); and the Third Summit of the Americas (Quebec City, 2001); RECALLING that, in resolution AG/RES. 1349 (XXV-O/95), the General Assembly established a Special Committee of the Permanent Council on Inter-American Summits Management (Special Committee), open to all member states, to ensure effective, timely, and appropriate follow-up to the activities assigned to the Organization by the Summit of the Americas and to coordinate OAS preparation, participation, and follow-up with regard to future Summits, and in subsequent resolutions instructed the Special Committee to report, through the Permanent Council, in writing to the foreign ministers at each regular session of the General Assembly on its activities; RECOGNIZING that the Special Committee has served as the framework for civil society participation in the Summits of the Americas process; RECALLING FURTHER: That, during the thirtieth regular session of the General Assembly, the ministers of foreign affairs of the member states engaged in dialogue in preparation for the Third Summit of the Americas; That, at the Third Summit, the Heads of State and Government of the Hemisphere signed the Declaration of Quebec City and Plan of Action; the Statement: "Connecting the Americas"; and the Declaration in Support of the Peace Process in Colombia; The agreements set out in the Quebec City Plan of Action in the section on "Follow-up to the Plan of Action"; and That the Declaration of Quebec City recognizes the significant results of the ministerial meetings held in support of the Summit mandates; and RECOGNIZING the importance of coordinated, timely, and effective follow-up to the Quebec City Plan of Action and its predecessors, and of timely, effective support in the preparatory work for the Fourth Summit of the Americas, RESOLVES: 1. To renew the mandate to the Permanent Council to coordinate, through its Special Committee on Inter-American Summits Management (Special Committee), the activities assigned to the Organization of American States by the Summits of the Americas. 2. To instruct the organs, agencies, and entities of the Organization to continue to give top priority to carrying out the initiatives assigned to them by the General Assembly, pursuant to the mandates of the Summits of the Americas, and to report regularly to the Special Committee in this regard. 3. To instruct the General Secretariat to act, through its Office of Summit Follow-up, as the technical secretariat and institutional memory of the Summits process, in accordance with the Plan of Action of the Quebec City Summit. 4. To instruct the General Secretariat to continue providing the necessary support to ministerial and sectoral meetings related to the implementation of Summit mandates on topics relevant to the OAS. 5. To instruct the General Secretariat to develop, through its Office of Summit Follow-up, in accordance with the Guidelines for the Participation of Civil Society Organizations in OAS Activities, suggestions on ways in which civil society organizations can contribute to the monitoring and implementation of Summit initiatives for further recommendation to the Summit Implementation Review Group (SIRG). 6. To instruct the General Secretariat, through its Office of Summit Follow-up and in collaboration with other relevant multilateral organizations, to (a) coordinate the implementation of the Summit mandates assigned to the OAS; (b) coordinate the monitoring of and exchange of information on such implementation; and (c) develop clear mechanisms to assess said implementation. 7. To welcome the Memorandum of Understanding between and the letter signed by the presidents of the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank in which they commit to the establishment of a Joint Summit Working Group on coordinating support among other organizations associated with the Summit process in the implementation of the Quebec City Plan of Action, and to request the Secretary General to maintain a permanent dialogue in this regard with the presidents of both these institutions. 8. To request the Secretary General to present proposals to the Permanent Council on the need to strengthen and reform the institutional and financial mechanisms of the Organization to support the Summits of the Americas process and to instruct the Permanent Council to take the pertinent decisions in this respect. 9. To instruct the Permanent Council to allocate resources in the program-budget of the Organization that allow for the full and timely execution of this resolution, and to instruct the Secretary General to carry out the activities mentioned in this resolution within those and other resources. 10. To instruct the Secretary General to create, in accordance with the instruction of the Third Summit of the Americas, a specific fund from voluntary contributions to finance OAS activities in support of the SIRG. 11. To instruct the Special Committee to report, through the Permanent Council, to the foreign ministers at the thirty-second regular session of the General Assembly on the implementation of this resolution.