CP/RES. 789 (1270/01)

INVITATIONS TO THE THIRTY-FIRST REGULAR SESSION
OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

         THE PERMANENT COUNCIL OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES,

        CONSIDERING the provisions of Article 9, paragraphs (c) and (d), of the Rules of Procedure of the General Assembly,

RESOLVES:

        1.     To authorize the Secretary General of the Organization to invite the inter-American regional or subregional governmental entities and agencies specified below and not included among the bodies or agencies of the Organization to send observers to the thirty-first regular session, in accordance with the provisions of Article 9.c of the Rules of Procedure of the General Assembly:

        ·     Association of Caribbean States (ACS)
        ·     Pan American Railway Congress Association - PARCA
        ·     Latin American Integration Association - LAIA
        ·     Central American Bank for Economic Integration - CABEI 
        ·     Caribbean Development Bank - CDB · Inter-American Development Bank - IDB
        ·     Permanent South Pacific Commission - CPPS
        ·     Andean Community 
        ·     Caribbean Community - CARICOM 
        ·     Andean Development Corporation - CAF 
        ·     Financial Fund for the Development of the River Plate Basin- FONPLATA 
        ·     Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America - OPANAL 
        ·     Organization of Eastern Caribbean States - OECS 
        ·     Latin American Energy Organization - OLADE 
        ·     Andean Parliament 
        ·     Central American Parliament 
        ·     Latin American Parliament 
        ·     Permanent Secretariat of the General Treaty on Central American Economic Integration -SIECA 
        ·     Secretariat pro tempore of the Southern Common Market - MERCOSUR 
        ·     Central American Integration System - SICA 
        ·     Latin American Economic System - SELA 
        ·     Union of Banana Exporting Countries - UPEB

        2.     To authorize the Secretary General of the Organization to invite the following United Nations specialized agencies and other international organizations, which have not entered into agreements with the Organization providing for reciprocal attendance at meetings and conferences, to send observers to the thirty-first regular session, in accordance with the provisions of Article 9.d of the Rules of Procedure of the General Assembly:

        ·     United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - UNHCR 
        ·     International Bank for Reconstruction and Development - IBRD 
        ·     Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean - ECLAC 
        ·     United Nations Conference on Trade and Development - UNCTAD 
        ·     United Nations Population Fund - UNFPA 
        ·     United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF 
        ·     International Monetary Fund - IMF · League of Arab States 
        ·     Organization of African Unity - OAU 
        ·     United Nations Development Programme - UNDP 
        ·     United Nations Environment Programme - UNEP 
        ·     United Nations International Drug Control Programme - UNIDCP 
        ·     Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe - (OSCE) 
        ·     The Commonwealth Secretariat 
        ·     The International Organisation of the Francophonie 
        ·     Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP)

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