LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT

The Secretariat for Legal Affairs assists the organs of the Organization by preparing studies, documents and legal opinions and providing secretariat services. It helps prepare treaties, agreements and other international instruments, and is in charge of the legal procedures involved in the signature and deposit of the ratification instruments when the General Secretariat is the depository for the instruments in question. It provides technical and secretariat services to the Inter-American Juridical Committee and to the Administrative Tribunal. The Secretariat has two departments: Development and Codification of International Law and General Legal Services.

Legal publications

In the period covered by this report, the following legal works have been published:

1. La Contribución del Comité Jurídico Interamericano de la OEA al Desarrollo y Codificación del Derecho Internacional ["The Contribution made by the OAS Inter-American Juridical Committee to the Development and Codification of International Law"].

2. Final Report of the Fifth Inter-American Specialized Conference on Private International Law (CIDIP-V).

3. Constitution of the Republic of Paraguay of 1992.

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