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. |