OEA/Ser.P AG/RES. 1808 (XXXI-O/01) 5 June 2001 Original: Spanish MINISTERIAL MEETING ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (Resolution adopted at the third plenary session, held on June 5, 2001; subject to review by the Style Committee) THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, HAVING SEEN resolution CIDI/RES. 66 (IV-O/99) "Support for Meetings and Activities in the Area of Sustainable Development and Environment"; resolution CIDI/RES. 90 (V-O/00) "Specialized or Sectoral Meetings of CIDI", and resolution CIDI/RES. 13 (I-E/01) "Ministerial Meeting on Sustainable Development"; TAKING INTO ACCOUNT that the Third Summit of the Americas held in April 2001 in Quebec City specifically requested that the OAS through its General Secretariat, in coordination with other agencies, organize a meeting at the ministerial level before the end of 2001, to be held in Bolivia on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Santa Cruz de la Sierra of 1996, and present contributions to the Rio +10 Summit in 2002; CONSIDERING: That the Plan of Action of the Summit of the Americas on Sustainable Development held in Bolivia in December, 1996, entrusted to the OAS the "role of coordinating follow-up on the various decisions of the Summit…" and for "convening the necessary meetings at the appropriate level"; and That the Second Meeting of the Inter-American Committee on Sustainable Development (CIDS) held in October 1999, approved resolution CIDI/CIDS/RES. 8 (II-O/99) recommending that a Ministerial/High Level Meeting to "further the implementation of sustainable development in the Hemisphere..." and welcoming the offer of the Government of Bolivia to host such a meeting and decided to meet as a preparatory forum for the ministerial meeting, RESOLVES: 1. To take note that CIDI has convened the Ministerial/High Level Meeting to further the implementation of sustainable development in the Hemisphere to be held by the end of November or the beginning of December 2001 in Bolivia. 2. To instruct CEPCIDI, through its Subcommittee on Partnership for Development Policies, to carry out the preparatory work for the Ministerial High Level Meeting. 3. To instruct the General Secretariat, through the Unit for Sustainable Development and Environment in coordination with the Executive Secretariat for Integral Development (SEDI), to provide the necessary technical and secretarial support for preparatory and follow-up meetings on the mandates of the Second and Third Summits of the Americas, contained in the sections on sustainable development. 4. To recommend to the member states to promote, with the support of the Unit for Sustainable Development and Environment and in coordination with the Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development (IACD), the preparation of multilateral projects related to the Summits mandates. 5. To request CIDI to report on the implementation of this resolution to the General Assembly at its thirty-second regular session.