OEA/Ser.P
AG/RES. 1766 (XXX-O/01)
5 June 2001
Original: Spanish
INTER-AMERICAN PROGRAM FOR THE
DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
(Resolution adopted at the third plenary session, held on June
5, 2001; subject to review by the Style Committee)
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
HAVING SEEN the report of the Permanent Council on the
implementation of resolution AG/RES. 1705 (XXX-O/00),
"Inter-American Program for the Development of
International Law" (CP/doc.3448/01);
CONSIDERING:
That the General Assembly, meeting in Panama in 1996, adopted
the "Declaration of Panama on the Inter-American
Contribution to the Development and Codification of
International Law," in which it affirmed, inter alia, its
"commitment to continue promoting the progressive
development and codification of inter-American international law
in the framework of the Organization of American States"
and urged its organs to disseminate the rich legal heritage
developed in that framework;
That the General Assembly, in resolution AG/RES. 1471 (XXVII-O/97),
adopted the Inter-American Program for the Development of
International Law, which calls for various activities by the
Organization to promote continued progress in the areas of
training, dissemination, application, and strengthening of
international law developed in the context of the inter-American
system;
That at its most recent regular session the General Assembly
reaffirmed the importance of said Program in resolution AG/RES.
1705 (XXX-O/00);
That the Permanent Council, at its meeting of August 13, 2000,
referred to the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs the
study of and follow-up on activities carried out by the General
Secretariat in fulfillment of the Inter-American Program for the
Development of International Law; and
That the international legal norms developed in the context of
the Organization of American States are a valuable legal
heritage that must be preserved and given broad dissemination
with a view to promoting the study, discussion, negotiation, and
development of new legal instruments and studies in the
framework of the inter-American system;
REAFFIRMING the importance of strengthening the legal
publications program and continuing to organize subregional
courses on different aspects of the inter-American legal system,
such as those held in Panama and Colombia and the course for the
Caribbean region to be held in the second half of 2001 in
Barbados; and
NOTING the conclusions and recommendations of the Workshops on
International Law held in Montevideo in October 1999 and in
Cordoba in December 2000, respectively, at which eminent jurists
from the Hemisphere asserted the need for periodic meetings of a
similar nature in order to continue to achieve their valuable
results,
RESOLVES:
1. To reaffirm the importance of the Inter-American Program for
the Development of International Law for the dissemination,
awareness, application, and strengthening of international law
developed in the inter-American framework; and to support the
activities of the Permanent Council of the Organization and the
General Secretariat in pursuance of the Program.
2. To instruct the General Secretariat to continue, through the
Secretariat for Legal Affairs, to implement the aforesaid
Program, according priority to the projects and activities
relating to the teaching of inter-American international law,
promotion of the inter-American legal system, and the legal
publications program, and to report thereon periodically to the
Permanent Council.
3. To promote, pursuant to paragraphs (a) and (c) of the
Inter-American Program for the Development of International Law,
the Inter-American System of Legal Information through the OAS
Web page, by incorporating legal information on the work and
activities of the Secretariat for Legal Affairs and
consolidating electronic networks for exchanging information on
different legal disciplines.
4. To request the General Secretariat, acting through the
Secretariat for Legal Affairs and in compliance with paragraphs
(l), (m), and (n) of the Inter-American Program for the
Development of International Law, to publish the Inter-American
Juridical Yearbook and a systematic, up-to-date work on the
institutional framework and legal aspects of the inter-American
system and, in particular, to arrange for all necessary
budgetary measures to be taken for this purpose.
5. To request the General Secretariat to continue to conduct
Workshops on International Law, pursuant to paragraph (i) of the
Inter-American Program for the Development of International Law,
and, in keeping with the conclusions and recommendations of
previous Workshops, to promote the establishment of an
Association of Professors of International Law to facilitate
exchanges among lecturers and professors and to analyze the
application of inter-American legal standards.
6. Also to request the General Secretariat, insofar as possible,
to establish an information network through the legal
departments or areas specializing in international law at
universities or academic centers.
7. To request the General Secretariat to continue, through the
Secretariat for Legal Affairs, the regional refresher courses on
international law, pursuant to paragraphs (f), (g), and (j) of
the Inter-American Program for the Development of International
Law, and, in particular, to organize a course next year for the
region made up of MERCOSUR member states.
8. To request the Permanent Council to monitor the
implementation of this resolution, which shall be carried out
within resources allocated in the program-budget and other
resources, and to request the Council to report thereon to the
General Assembly at its thirty-second regular session.
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