CP/RES. 842 (1363/03) rev. 1

NAMING OAS MEETING ROOMS AFTER
RUBÉN DARÍO AND DR. JOSÉ GUSTAVO GUERRERO

(Adopted at the meeting of April 9, 2003, and revised at the meeting of September 29, 2004)

THE PERMANENT COUNCIL OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES,

CONSIDERING that the architecture of the headquarters of the OAS reflects varied influences of its member states, and that therefore its meeting rooms have been named after various distinguished figures who have contributed to the advancement of hemispheric causes;

UNDERSCORING the desire of the Central American countries to be included among these representative symbols of the history and heritage of the Americas;

RECALLING:

The life and career of the poet, man of letters, diplomat, humanist and distinguished bard of Nicaragua, RUBÉN DARÍO, the Father of Literary Modernism, Prince of Castilian Literature, Latin America’s Man of the Millennium and illustrious Poet of America, who extolled the Pan American Union and wrote hymns and odes of greatness for all the heroes and peoples of America; and

The life, works, and memory of Dr. JOSÉ GUSTAVO GUERRERO, eminent jurist and Salvadorian diplomat, President of the Permanent Court of International Justice of the Hague and First President of the International Court of Justice, and his contributions to international law,

RESOLVES:

1. To name the room on the eighth floor of the General Secretariat Building, 1889 F Street, N.W., after RUBÉN DARÍO, in honor of the distinguished Central American poet.

2. To name the meeting room about to be built on the second floor of the main building of the Organization after Dr. JOSÉ GUSTAVO GUERRERO, in honor of the eminent jurist and Central American diplomat.