Each year the OAS Secretary General publishes a proposed Program-Budget for the coming calendar year. The OAS General Assembly meets in a Special Session to approve the Program-Budget. Find these documents from 1998-2013 here.
Each year in April, the OAS Board of External Auditors publishes a report covering the previous calendar year’s financial results. Reports covering 1996-2016 may be found here.
Approximately six weeks after the end of each semester, the OAS publishes a Semiannual Management and Performance Report, which since 2013 includes reporting on programmatic results. The full texts may be found here.
Here you will find data on the Human Resources of the OAS, including its organizational structure, each organizational unit’s staffing, vacant posts, and performance contracts.
The OAS executes a variety of projects funded by donors. Evaluation reports are commissioned by donors. Reports of these evaluations may be found here.
The Inspector General provides the Secretary General with reports on the audits, investigations, and inspections conducted. These reports are made available to the Permanent Council. More information may be found here.
The OAS has discussed for several years the real estate issue, the funding required for maintenance and repairs, as well as the deferred maintenance of its historic buildings. The General Secretariat has provided a series of options for funding it. The most recent document, reflecting the current status of the Strategy, is CP/CAAP-3211/13 rev. 4.
Here you will find information related to the GS/OAS Procurement Operations, including a list of procurement notices for formal bids, links to the performance contract and travel control measure reports, the applicable procurement rules and regulations, and the training and qualifications of its staff.
The OAS Treasurer certifies the financial statements of all funds managed or administered by the GS/OAS. Here you will find the latest general purpose financial reports for the main OAS funds, as well as OAS Quarterly Financial Reports (QFRs).
Every year the GS/OAS publishes the annual operating plans for all areas of the Organization, used to aid in the formulation of the annual budget and as a way to provide follow-up on institutional mandates.
Here you will find information related to the OAS Strategic Plan 2016-2020, including its design, preparation and approval.
GUATEMALA SIGNS TREATY ON LEGAL COOPERATION IN CRIMINAL MATTERS
December 19, 2002
Guatemala today signed the Inter-American Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters, an Organization of American States (OAS) treaty—the 18th member state to do so.
Foreign Affairs Minister, Edgar Armando Gutiérrez, signed the treaty during a ceremony with Assistant Secretary General Luigi Einaudi, at OAS Headquarter, saying his government hopes to be able to ratify soon. “My presence here is an expression of my government’s commitment to and belief in multilateralism and that the countries of this Hemisphere should confront common challenges through joint effort.”
He said Guatemala signed the Convention, “convinced that it will help strengthen our institutions,” stressing that in order to tackle rising transnational crime, “international instruments that facilitate efficient, effective and expeditious law enforcement are crucial.” The Guatemalan Foreign Minister argued as well that “strengthening the justice system is indispensable to the rule of law in the countries of the Americas.”
The Assistant Secretary General hailed Guatemala’s signing as a demonstration of commitment to the drive to combat crime and impunity, explaining that the treaty provides for more expeditious information sharing, among other things. “It is also an instrument to harmonize the Hemisphere’s existing legal systems based on respect for domestic laws and for the adoption of common rules.”
The Inter-American Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters was adopted at the OAS General Assembly in The Bahamas, in 1992. It entered into force April 14, 1996, and eight member states have ratified it thus far.
The video from the today’s signing ceremony can be viewed on the OAS website, at www.oas.org.
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