AG/RES. 1265 (XXIV-O/94)

OBSERVATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE PERMANENT COUNCIL ON THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

(Resolution adopted at the ninth plenary session, held on June 10, 1994)

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

HAVING SEEN the Observations and Recommendations of the Permanent Council on the Annual Report of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (AG/doc.3068/94) and the report the President of the Court presented to the Permanent Council; and

CONSIDERING:

That Article 53.f of the Charter of the Organization of American States vests in the General Assembly the power to consider the observations and recommendations presented by the Permanent Council in accordance with Article 90.f of the Charter, on the reports of the organs, agencies, and entities of the Organization;

That Article 65 of the American Convention on Human Rights provides that the Court shall submit, for consideration by the General Assembly of the Organization of American States, a report on its work during the previous year; and

That the Inter-American Court of Human Rights presented its annual report to the Permanent Council, which sent its observations and recommendations on the report to the General Assembly,

RESOLVES:

  1. To welcome and transmit to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights the Permanent Council's observations and recommendations on the annual report.

  2. To thank the Government of Costa Rica for facilitating the acquisition by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of the building it has occupied since June 1980 in San Jos?, Costa Rica.

  3. 3. To urge the OAS member states that have not yet done so to ratify or accede to the American Convention on Human Rights "Pact of San Jos?," and to accept the compulsory jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

  4. To provide the Inter-American Court of Human Rights with the support it needs to perform the high functions assigned to it in the American Convention on Human Rights.

  5. To express to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights its recognition of the work done in its 15 years of operation, and to urge it to continue performing its important work.

  6. To entrust the General Secretariat with the task of organizing, through its offices in the member states, seminars for publicizing the work being done by the Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in defending and promoting human rights.

  7. To thank and congratulate Dr. Rafael Nieto Navia, President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, on the occasion of his imminent retirement after 12 consecutive years of work, for his outstanding and brilliant performance in human rights advocacy in the Hemisphere.

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