AG/RES. 1324 (XXV-O/95)

LEGAL DEVELOPMENT OF INTEGRATION

(Resolution adopted at the ninth plenary session, held on June 9, 1995)

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

HAVING SEEN the Report of the Permanent Council on Legal Development of Integration (AG/doc.3179/95); and

CONSIDERING:

That integration of the countries of the Hemisphere is one of the objectives of the inter-American system, and the OAS Charter provides that member states shall orient their efforts toward this aim and take the necessary measures to accelerate the integration process;

That both the Declaration of Asunci n and the Santiago Commitment to Democracy and the Renewal of the Inter-American System, adopted by the General Assembly at its twentieth and twenty-first regular sessions, respectively, reaffirm that objective and accord it special priority;

That, as stated in resolution AG/RES. 1209 (XXIII-O/93), adopted by the General Assembly in Managua in June 1993, integration is a means of creating new economic and social circumstances to help reduce the extreme poverty afflicting broad sectors of the region's population and strengthen democracy in the Hemisphere; and

That the Organization of American States is promoting greater cooperation and linkage with the subregional and regional integration mechanisms and organizations, as well as with other institutions involved in the development of the American nations, and that for this purpose it has been conducting certain legal studies designed to further the major efforts being undertaken by those mechanisms, organizations, and institutions,

RESOLVES:

  1. To note with satisfaction the Report of the Permanent Council on Legal Development of Integration.

  2. To recommend to the Permanent Council that, through its Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs, it continue the tasks entrusted to it through resolutions AG/RES. 1104 (XXI-O/91), AG/RES. 1163 (XXII-O/92), AG/RES. 1209 (XXIII-O/93), and AG/RES. 1267 (XXIV-O/94) and that, within the context of those resolutions, it identify legal areas that might be addressed by concrete studies and analyses, to be carried out in cooperation with the regional and subregional integration bodies or with other institutions of the Hemisphere that share that inter-American objective.

  3. To ask the Permanent Council to report to the General Assembly once it has fulfilled the mandate contained in this resolution.

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