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The OAS executes a variety of projects funded by donors. Evaluation reports are commissioned by donors. Reports of these evaluations may be found here.
The Inspector General provides the Secretary General with reports on the audits, investigations, and inspections conducted. These reports are made available to the Permanent Council. More information may be found here.
The OAS has discussed for several years the real estate issue, the funding required for maintenance and repairs, as well as the deferred maintenance of its historic buildings. The General Secretariat has provided a series of options for funding it. The most recent document, reflecting the current status of the Strategy, is CP/CAAP-3211/13 rev. 4.
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Every year the GS/OAS publishes the annual operating plans for all areas of the Organization, used to aid in the formulation of the annual budget and as a way to provide follow-up on institutional mandates.
Here you will find information related to the OAS Strategic Plan 2016-2020, including its design, preparation and approval.
New Representative of Costa Rica Presents Credentials
February 26, 2021
Photo: OAS
The new Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the Organization of American States (OAS), Alejandra Solano, presented her credentials today to the Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro, in a virtual ceremony.
During the ceremony, Ambassador Solano said her country and the OAS share many values and principles. “The objectives established in the OAS Charter are aligned with the principles of Costa Rica's foreign policy: peace, legality, democracy, fundamental freedoms, human rights, disarmament, sustainable development and preservation of the environment,” said the Costa Rican diplomat.
For his part, Secretary General Almagro highlighted the strength of Costa Rica's democratic institutions and its defense of the fundamental principles of the Inter-American system. “At the OAS we work with the four basic pillars of the Organization: promotion and defense of democracy, human rights, hemispheric security, and integral development. Costa Rica honors these basic principles with its presence and with its actions,”added the OAS Secretary General.
Ambassador Solano is a lawyer by profession and has had an extensive career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship of her country.