» Statute of the Inter-American Juridical Committee

CHAPTER VII

SECRETARIAT

Article 28: The General Secretariat of the Organization shall provide full technical and secretariat services to the Inter-American Juridical Committee, which has its seat in Rio de Janeiro, and shall carry out its instructions and assignments.

Article 29: When the Inter-American Juridical Committee considers it necessary to utilize the services of specialists who are to be paid by the Organization, it shall make the corresponding request to the General Secretariat.

Article 30: The General Secretariat shall publish the opinions, studies, reports, drafts, and resolutions of the Committee in the four official languages of the Organization.

It shall likewise give due publicity to the activities of the Committee among law faculties and schools, bar associations and other associations and federations of lawyers, communications media, international agencies and other institutions, and professors and other interested persons, unless an authoritative request to restrict such information is received.

Article 31: The General Secretariat shall cooperate with the Committee in the establishment and promotion of cooperative relations with universities, bar associations and other associations of lawyers, institutes and other teaching centers, and with national and international committees and entities devoted to study, research, teaching or dissemination of information on juridical matters of international interest.

Article 32: The Committee shall provide the General Secretariat with elements to facilitate the coordination of the Committee's activities with those of the other organs of the Organization and also with those of other international organizations or entities that are similar in nature to the Committee.

Article 33: The opinions and reports prepared by the Committee in response to inquiries or that contain studies or preparatory works assigned by the General Assembly or the Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs, and also those prepared on its own initiative and intended for either of those organs, shall be presented to the General Secretariat for appropriate action.

The works, studies, opinions, or drafts prepared by the Committee in accordance with the plans it prepares for the progressive development and the codification of international law, for studying the legal problems related to the integration of the developing countries of the hemisphere, and for the possibility of attaining uniformity in or harmonizing legislation of the American States, shall be circulated in accordance with the procedures established in those plans.