| Organization of American States
(E-174/01) AGENDA APPROVED FOR SPECIAL OAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY The Preparatory Committee of the Organization of American States (OAS) General Assembly on Tuesday Chaired by Costa Rican Ambassador Hernan R. Castro approved the draft agenda and draft schedule for the 28th special General Assembly session to be held in Lima, Peru, next September 10 and 11. The special session is being convened to adopt the Inter-American Democratic Charter that is now under consideration. The meeting will be inaugurated at 5:00 p.m. on September 10, at Los Delfines Hotel and will continue the next day with consideration of the text of the charter which the member states are expected to approve. Peru's Minister of Foreign Affairs Diego García Sayán will preside over the two-day special Assembly, which the Foreign Ministers from the 34 OAS member states are expected to attend. A significant number of civil society representatives will also be expected at the meeting. The Democracy Charter stems from a mandate from the Hemisphere's Presidents and Prime Ministers at the Third Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, Canada, last April. It is aimed at reinforcing OAS mechanisms "for the active defense of representative democracy," and will be used to promote and consolidate "representative democracy as the system of government of all American states."
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