2nd.
Special Meeting of the OAS Permanent Council
on Criminal
Gangs toward a Regional Strategy
to Promote Inter-American
Cooperation
The OAS Permanent Council has convened on March 2, 2010, the Second Special
Meeting on Criminal Gangs during which the Member States,
the Inter-American organizations, international
organizations and civil society presented their
perspective and experiences with the objective to elaborate
a Regional Strategy to Promote Inter-American Cooperation in
dealing with criminal gangs.
Agenda of the second special meeting on
Criminal Gangs toward a Regional Strategy to Promote
Inter-American Cooperation (Approved during the
session held on February 4, 2010)
Biographies
of the speakers of the Second Special Meeting of the
OAS Permanent Council on Criminal Gangs toward a
Regional Strategy to Promote Inter-American
Cooperation
Background:
The Resolution
AG/RES. 2461 (XXXIX-O/09)
adopted by the OAS General Assembly requests the Permanent
Council to convene, within the framework of the Working
Group to Prepare a Regional Strategy to Promote
Inter-American Cooperation in Dealing with Criminal Gangs of
the Committee on Hemispheric Security, a second special
meeting to continue analyzing the phenomenon of criminal
gangs, in accordance with national and subregional
priorities, at which member states, agencies of the inter-American
system, and other international organizations and civil
society may present their views and experiences at the
national, subregional, and hemispheric levels, with a view
to continuing to prepare a regional strategy to promote
inter-American cooperation in dealing with criminal gangs,
in accordance with resolution
AG/RES. 2380 (XXXVIII-O/08).
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