OEA/Ser.P
AG/RES. 1824 (XXXI-O/01)
5 June 2001
Original: Spanish
SUPPORT FOR AND FOLLOW-UP TO THE SUMMITS
OF THE AMERICAS PROCESS
(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 annual report of the Permanent Council on the
Report of the Special Committee on Inter-American Summits
Management 2000-2001 (CP/doc.3485/01), presented pursuant to
resolution AG/RES. 1752 (XXX-O/00), "Support for and
Follow-up to the Summits of the Americas Process";
BEARING IN MIND the Summits initiatives emanating from the
First Summit of the Americas (Miami, 1994); the Summit
Conference on Sustainable Development (Santa Cruz de la Sierra,
1996); the Second Summit of the Americas (Santiago, 1998); and
the Third Summit of the Americas (Quebec City, 2001);
RECALLING that, in resolution AG/RES. 1349 (XXV-O/95), the
General Assembly established a Special Committee of the
Permanent Council on Inter-American Summits Management (Special
Committee), open to all member states, to ensure effective,
timely, and appropriate follow-up to the activities assigned to
the Organization by the Summit of the Americas and to coordinate
OAS preparation, participation, and follow-up with regard to
future Summits, and in subsequent resolutions instructed the
Special Committee to report, through the Permanent Council, in
writing to the foreign ministers at each regular session of the
General Assembly on its activities;
RECOGNIZING that the Special Committee has served as the
framework for civil society participation in the Summits of the
Americas process;
RECALLING FURTHER:
That, during the thirtieth regular session of the General
Assembly, the ministers of foreign affairs of the member states
engaged in dialogue in preparation for the Third Summit of the
Americas;
That, at the Third Summit, the Heads of State and Government
of the Hemisphere signed the Declaration of Quebec City and Plan
of Action; the Statement: "Connecting the Americas";
and the Declaration in Support of the Peace Process in Colombia;
The agreements set out in the Quebec City Plan of Action in
the section on "Follow-up to the Plan of Action"; and
That the Declaration of Quebec City recognizes the
significant results of the ministerial meetings held in support
of the Summit mandates; and
RECOGNIZING the importance of coordinated, timely, and
effective follow-up to the Quebec City Plan of Action and its
predecessors, and of timely, effective support in the
preparatory work for the Fourth Summit of the Americas,
RESOLVES:
1. To renew the mandate to the Permanent Council to
coordinate, through its Special Committee on Inter-American
Summits Management (Special Committee), the activities assigned
to the Organization of American States by the Summits of the
Americas.
2. To instruct the organs, agencies, and entities of the
Organization to continue to give top priority to carrying out
the initiatives assigned to them by the General Assembly,
pursuant to the mandates of the Summits of the Americas, and to
report regularly to the Special Committee in this regard.
3. To instruct the General Secretariat to act, through its
Office of Summit Follow-up, as the technical secretariat and
institutional memory of the Summits process, in accordance with
the Plan of Action of the Quebec City Summit.
4. To instruct the General Secretariat to continue providing
the necessary support to ministerial and sectoral meetings
related to the implementation of Summit mandates on topics
relevant to the OAS.
5. To instruct the General Secretariat to develop, through
its Office of Summit Follow-up, in accordance with the
Guidelines for the Participation of Civil Society Organizations
in OAS Activities, suggestions on ways in which civil society
organizations can contribute to the monitoring and
implementation of Summit initiatives for further recommendation
to the Summit Implementation Review Group (SIRG).
6. To instruct the General Secretariat, through its Office of
Summit Follow-up and in collaboration with other relevant
multilateral organizations, to (a) coordinate the implementation
of the Summit mandates assigned to the OAS; (b) coordinate the
monitoring of and exchange of information on such
implementation; and (c) develop clear mechanisms to assess said
implementation.
7. To welcome the Memorandum of Understanding between and the
letter signed by the presidents of the Inter-American
Development Bank and the World Bank in which they commit to the
establishment of a Joint Summit Working Group on coordinating
support among other organizations associated with the Summit
process in the implementation of the Quebec City Plan of Action,
and to request the Secretary General to maintain a permanent
dialogue in this regard with the presidents of both these
institutions.
8. To request the Secretary General to present proposals to
the Permanent Council on the need to strengthen and reform the
institutional and financial mechanisms of the Organization to
support the Summits of the Americas process and to instruct the
Permanent Council to take the pertinent decisions in this
respect.
9. To instruct the Permanent Council to allocate resources in
the program-budget of the Organization that allow for the full
and timely execution of this resolution, and to instruct the
Secretary General to carry out the activities mentioned in this
resolution within those and other resources.
10. To instruct the Secretary General to create, in
accordance with the instruction of the Third Summit of the
Americas, a specific fund from voluntary contributions to
finance OAS activities in support of the SIRG.
11. To instruct the Special Committee to report, through the
Permanent Council, to the foreign ministers at the thirty-second
regular session of the General Assembly on the implementation of
this resolution.
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