Special Meeting (2003)

Agenda

Presentations:

Chair of the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs

International humanitarian law: achievements, current status, and the outlook for new developments.

Presentation: Antón Camen, Legal Advisor for Latin America. Advisory Service on International Humanitarian Law of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Commentator: Ambassador Ruiz-Cabañas, Permanent Representative of Mexico to the OAS.

Recent international developments:

Report on the International Conference of Government and Non-Governmental Experts on Disappeared Persons.

Presentation: Nathalie Fisher de Watteville, Deputy Head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Washington, D.C.

Comments: Ambassador Eduardo Ferrero Costa, Permanent Representative of Peru to theOAS. 

Report on the Regional Meeting of Experts on Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.

Presentation: Ambassador Eduardo Ferrero Costa, Permanent Representative of Peru to the OAS.

Comments: Carlos Gómez Morales. Minister Counselor, Permanent Representative of Nicaragua to the OAS.

Recent progress made in OAS member states in relation to the topics referred to in resolutions AG/RES. 1900 and 1904 (XXXII-O/02):

National enforcement of international humanitarian law: Recent developments in the states of the Americas.

Presentations: Angela Healy, President of the Permanent Commission for the Application of International Humanitarian Law, Panama.

Mauricio Alice, First Secretary, Alternate Representative of Argentina to the OAS.

Ambassador Claudio Troncoso, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chile.

Commentator: Antón Camen, Legal Advisor, Advisory Service on International Humanitarian Law of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

International Criminal Court: Application of the Rome Statute at the hemispheric level.

Presentations: Ambassador Paul D. Durand, Permanent Representative of Canada to the OAS.

Brigitte Suhr, Advocate, International Justice Program. Human Rights Watch. Coalition for the International Criminal Court.

Commentators: Ms. Gaile Ramoutar, First Secretary, Permanent Representative of Trinidad and Tobago to the United Nations.

Dr. Tarciso Dal Maso Jardim, Legal Advisor to the Senate. Member of the Committee that drafted the Brazilian bill on implementation of the Rome Statute, Brazil.

Report of the Chair.