AG/RES. 1515 (XXVII-O/97)

REQUEST TO TRANSFORM THE INTER-AMERICAN PORT AND HARBOR CONFERENCE INTO AN INTER-AMERICAN PORTS COMMISSION

(Resolution adopted at the seventh plenary session, held on June 5, 1997)

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

HAVING SEEN:

Articles 121 and 122 of the Charter of the Organization of American States and resolution AG/RES. 85 (II-O/72), "Standards for Inter-American Specialized Conferences";

Article 3.e of the Statutes of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI);

Resolution CIDI/RES. 19 (II-O/97), "Proposal to Transform the Inter-American Port and Harbor Conference into the Inter-American Ports Commission"; and

The report of the Permanent Executive Committee of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development on the request to transform the Inter-American Port and Harbor Conference into an Inter-American Ports Commission (CEPCIDI/doc.75/97); and

 

CONSIDERING:

The importance of port and harbor systems for the processes of economic and social development and, particularly, for communications, transportation, trade, and regional integration; and

Operative paragraph 1 of resolution CIDI/RES. 18 (II-O/97), "Specialized Conferences," in which CIDI resolves "to instruct the Permanent Executive Committee of CIDI (CEPCIDI) to study those Specialized Conferences whose topics correspond to the areas of inter-American cooperation within the purview of CIDI, with a view to making recommendations, as appropriate, to adapt and reorient their work and structure in accordance with the Strategic Plan,"

RESOLVES:

1. To instruct the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) to carry out, through its Permanent Executive Committee (CEPCIDI), pertinent studies on the possible implementation of the resolution adopted by the Ninth Inter-American Port and Harbor Conference on its transformation into an Inter-American Ports Commission [CIDI/PUERTOS/RES. 18 (IX-O/96)]. Those studies should take into account the budgetary, regulatory, and administrative-institutional implications for the Organization.

2. To instruct CEPCIDI to prepare, on the basis of the above-mentioned studies, a proposal on the topic for presentation to CIDI at its Third Regular Meeting.

3. To request CEPCIDI to instruct the Permanent Technical Committee on Ports of the Inter-American Port and Harbor Conference to submit to it the Final Report of the Ninth Inter-American Conference, so that CEPCIDI will have all the pertinent information with which to prepare the studies mentioned in operative paragraph 2 of this resolution.

4. To instruct CIDI to present a report with recommendations to the General Assembly at its twenty-eighth regular session.