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E-010/2000
January 19, 2000 

 

OAS PERMANENT COUNCIL ELECTS SEVEN BOAR
MEMBERS FOR JUSTICE STUDIES CENTER OF THE AMERICAS

 

The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) on Wednesday elected the members of the board of directors of the newly-formed Justice Studies Center of the Americas. The board members elected are prominent jurists from Chile, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Mexico, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago and the United States.

At the Permanent Council sitting chaired by Belize Ambassador James Murphy, the representatives of the 34 OAS member states voted for the following individuals to comprise the board of directors: María Soledad Alvear (Chile), Monica Nagel Berger (Costa Rica), Carl Rattray (Jamaica), José Ovalle Favela (Mexico), Federico Callizo Nicora (Paraguay), Karl Hudson-Phillips, Q.C. (Trinidad and Tobago), and Douglas Cassel (United States).

The jurists from Chile, Jamaica and the United States will serve 3-year terms on the board, while those from Trinidad and Tobago and Mexico will serve for 2 years. The Costa Rican and Paraguayan members will each serve for 1 year.

The Permanent Council Chairman also told the meeting that the governments of Argentina, Chile, Dominican Republic, Peru and Uruguay had submitted their respective offers to host the headquarters for the hemispheric Justice Studies Center. Those proposals will be taken up at the meeting of Ministers of Justice to be held in San José, Costa Rica, next March.

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