AG/RES. 1337 (XXV-O/95)

PROMOTION OF DEMOCRACY

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

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

HAVING SEEN the report of the Permanent Council on the promotion of democracy (AG/doc.3221/95);

BEARING IN MIND that, under resolution AG/RES. 1280 (XXIV-O/94), "Promotion of Democracy," it instructed the Permanent Council to continue the study on preparation of a set of proposed incentives to preserve and strengthen democratic systems and to report to the General Assembly at its twenty-fifth regular session; and

CONSIDERING that the Secretary General of the Organization has submitted a working document, "A New Vision of the OAS," in connection with the strengthening of democracy in the Hemisphere, and that said document is under study by the member states of the Organization,

RESOLVES:

  1. To instruct the Permanent Council to continue the study on preparation of a set of proposed incentives to preserve and strengthen democratic systems and to report to the General Assembly at its twenty-sixth regular session.

  2. To note with interest the ideas expressed by the Secretary General of the Organization in Chapter I, "Strengthening of Democracy in the Hemisphere," of his document "A New Vision of the OAS."

  3. To take note of the preliminary draft submitted by the Chair of the Working Group on Representative Democracy of the General Committee of the Permanent Council, entitled "Preparation of Educational Materials to Assist in Conveying Democratic Standards and Values for Raising the Awareness of the Educational Community in the Americas?Education for Democracy."

  4. To take note of the efforts of the Unit for the Promotion of Democracy and urge the General Secretariat to continue to promote its activities in implementing this resolution.

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