OEA/Ser.P AG/RES. 1773 (XXXI-O/01) 5 June 2001 Original: Spanish CENTENNIAL OF THE INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE (Resolution adopted at the third plenary session, held on June 5, 2001; subject to review by the Style Committee) THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, BEARING IN MIND that Article 53 of the OAS Charter establishes the Inter-American Juridical Committee as one of the organs of the Organization, and that the Committee is the Organization's advisory body on juridical matters; BEARING IN MIND ALSO that the purpose of the Inter-American Juridical Committee is to promote the progressive development and codification of international law; RECALLING that the Third International Conference of American States, meeting in 1906, established the Permanent Committee of the Inter-American Council of Jurists of Rio de Janeiro, which later came to be called the Inter-American Juridical Committee, and that the Committee will therefore celebrate its centennial in 2006; and NOTING the report presented by the Chair of the Inter-American Juridical Committee at the March 29, 2001, meeting of the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs of the Permanent Council, which mentioned that the CJI had begun to prepare for the centennial celebration, RESOLVES: 1. To request the Inter-American Juridical Committee to prepare a program of activities, publications, and other events for its centennial celebration, for inclusion in its next annual report to the General Assembly, covering the year 2001. 2. To instruct the Inter-American Juridical Committee that the aforementioned program should take account of the possibility of preparing a draft declaration on the role of the Juridical Committee in the development of inter-American law, for consideration in due course by the General Assembly. 3. To request the Inter-American Juridical Committee to focus the 2006 session of the Course on International Law, held every August in Rio de Janeiro, on the topic "The contribution of the Inter-American Juridical Committee to the development of inter-American law." 4. To request the Permanent Council, through its Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs, and the General Secretariat, through its Secretariat for Legal Affairs, to extend the greatest possible degree of support to the activities of the centennial celebration. 5. To instruct the Permanent Council to transmit this resolution to the Inter-American Juridical Committee.