OAS Secretary General, José Miguel Insulza (center) and the Guatemalan Chancellor, Haroldo Rodas, sign the agreement for the marking of firearms. They were accompanied by the US Ambassador to the OAS, Carmen Lomellin.
Countries sign firearms marking agreement
SMS/OAS
In 2011, twelve countries in Latin America and the Caribbean signed agreements with the OAS to carry out projects to promote the marking of firearms. This agreement falls within the framework of the Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and Other Related Materials (CIFTA).
The countries that have joined the initiative are:
Belize,
The Bahamas, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Uruguay, El Salvador, Guatemala, Barbados, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. |
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Homicide Rate in the Americas
Falls Between 2000 – 2009
OAS/SMS
The homicide rate in the Americas decreased during the 2000 – 2009 period, according to the 2011 Report on Citizen Security in the Americas (Alertamerica.org), presented by the OAS Secretariat for Multidimensional Security (SMS).
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OAS Promotes Drug Treatment Courts
in the Americas
OAS/SMS
The OAS is developing a series of strategic alliances with countries in the region by promoting the project Drug Treatment Courts (“DTC”) in the Americas, an initiative that is already being set in motion in five countries in the hemisphere, and that could soon be implemented in seven more.
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Foreign Minister Martinez Delivers Copy of the Declaration of San Salvador to G8
OAS/SMS
The Foreign Minister from El Salvador, Hugo Martínez, gave his peer from France, Alain Juppé, a copy of the Declaration of San Salvador on Citizen Security in the Americas, approved by the General Assembly of the OAS which took place last June in El Salvador.
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New Inter-American Defense Board Authorities Sworn In
OAS
Lieutenant General Guy Thibault of the Canadian Forces entered office as the new Chairman of the Inter-American Defense Board (IADB), an entity of the OAS. The ceremony took place in Washington, DC, on June 30, 2011. Present at the ceremony, was OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza.
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