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AG/RES. 2174 (XXXVI-O/06)
INTER-AMERICAN PROGRAM FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL
LAW
(Approved by the Permanent Count at its meeting of May 17,
2006)
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
Having seen
the Annual Report of the Permanent Council to the General
Assembly (AG/doc.…/06 add. 3), in particular as it pertains
to the implementation of resolution AG/RES. 2070
(XXXV-O/05), “Inter-American Program for the Development of
International Law”;
CONSIDERING that in 1996 the General Assembly adopted the
Declaration of Panama on the Inter-American Contribution to
the Development and Codification of International Law
[AG/DEC. 12 (XXVI-O/96)], and that in 1997, by resolution
AG/RES. 1471 (XXVII-O/97), it adopted the Inter-American
Program for the Development of International Law;
CONSIDERING ALSO that the General Assembly has reaffirmed
its support for said Program through its resolutions AG/RES.
1557 (XXVIII-O/98), AG/RES. 1617 (XXIX-O/99), AG/RES. 1705
(XXX-O/00), AG/RES. 1766 (XXXI-O/01), AG/RES. 1845
(XXXII-O/02), AG/RES. 1921 (XXXIII-O/03), AG/RES. 2032
(XXXIV-O/04), and AG/RES. 2070 (XXXV-O/05);
TAKING NOTE of the Report on the Inter-American Program for
the Development of International Law: “Activities of the
Secretariat for Legal Affairs (SLA) (April
2005–February 2006) (CP/CAJP-2332/03), in compliance with
said Program; and
NOTING WITH SATISFACTION the holding of the meeting of the
Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs to share
experiences on how international law is addressed in
diplomatic academies and other training centers for public
officials, held at OAS headquarters on January 19, 2006, the
final report of which was presented by the Chair of the
(CP/CAJP-2324/06 corr. 1),
RESOLVES:
1. To reaffirm the importance of, and its support for, the
Inter-American Program for the Development of International
Law; and to request the Secretariat for Legal Affairs (SLA) of the General Secretariat to continue carrying out
the activities enumerated in the Program.
2. To urge that the General Secretariat, through the
International Law Office of the Secretariat for Legal Affairs (SLA), continue conducting the Workshops on
International Law and the Course on International Law in Rio
de Janeiro and provide support for activities designed to
increase awareness of international law, with special
emphasis on the inter-American system, as well as for
activities involving the dissemination of legal information
and the status of signatures and ratifications of
inter-American treaties deposited with the General
Secretariat, through its publications, electronic media, and
the Internet, in all the official languages of the OAS.
3. To take note of the report of the meeting of the
Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs (CAJP) to share
experiences on how international law is addressed in
diplomatic academies and other training centers for public
officials; and to request the International Law Office to
continue to support the CAJP in organizing these events and
to create a database on its Webpage on diplomatic academies
in the Hemisphere, in response to the recommendations of
that CAJP meeting.
4. To request the International Law Office of the Secretariat for Legal Affairs (SLA) to design a general course on
the inter-American system, for diplomatic academies, other
training centers for public officials, and other legal
education centers in the Hemisphere, in the context of the
mandates of the Program for the Development of International
Law on the promotion and dissemination of the inter-American
system and of the recommendations of the CAJP meeting on how
inter-American law is addressed.
5. To request the Permanent Council to follow up on
implementation of this resolution, which will be carried out
within the resources allocated in the program-budget of the
Organization and other resources, and to report to the
General Assembly at its thirty-seventh regular session. |
