CP/RES. 877 (1469/05)

INVITATIONS TO THE THIRTIETH SPECIAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

(Adopted at its session held on March 30, 2005)

THE PERMANENT COUNCIL OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES,

CONSIDERING the provisions of Article 9 of the Rules of Procedure of the General Assembly and the decision adopted by the Permanent Council on October 2, 1986,

RESOLVES:

1. To authorize the Secretary General of the Organization to invite the following inter-American regional or subregional governmental entities and agencies to attend the thirtieth special session of the General Assembly as observers:

• Association of Caribbean States

• Latin American Integration Association – LAIA

• Central American Bank for Economic Integration – CABEI

• Caribbean Development Bank – CDB

• Inter-American Development Bank - IDB

• Permanent Commission for the South Pacific – CPPS

• Andean Community

• Caribbean Community – CARICOM

• Financial Fund for the Development of the River Plate Basin– FONPLATA

• Inter-American Defense Board - IADB

• 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 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 specialized agencies of the United Nations and other international organizations to send observers to represent them at the thirtieth special session:

• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees – UNHCR

• World Bank

• Caribbean Association of National Telecommunication Organizations

• Center for Studies in Law, Economics, and Public Policy

• Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean – ECLAC

• International Committee of the Red Cross.

• Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP)

• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development – UNCTAD

• Latin American Social Sciences Faculty - FLACSO

• United Nations Population Fund – UNFPA

• United Nations Children's Fund – UNICEF

• International Monetary Fund - IMF

• United Nations Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders - ILANUD

• League of Arab States

• International Civil Aviation Organization - ICAO

• Organization of Women of the Americas

• International Francophone Organization

• Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe – OSCE

• United Nations Development Programme – UNDP

• United Nations Environment Programme – UNEP

• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

• Ibero-American Cooperation Secretariat

• Commonwealth Secretariat

• Sustainable Tourism Foundation

• Trust for the Americas

• African Union – AU

• Latin Union