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Chair of the Permanent Council Met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay and Candidate for Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro

  February 18, 2015

Chair of the Permanent Council Met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay and Candidate for Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro
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The Chair of the Permanent Council and Permanent Representative of Suriname, Niermala Badrising, met today with the candidate for Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay, Luis Almagro, at the headquarters of the hemispheric Organization in Washington, DC.

Ambassador Badrising and Foreign Minister Almagro discussed the process of choosing the next head of the Organization. The meeting took place before the Council meeting in which the candidate for Secretary General of the OAS presented his vision for the Organization.

Also present at the meeting were the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay, Luis Porto; the Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the OAS, Hugo Cayrús; the Secretary General of the National Drug Board of Uruguay and former Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the OAS, Milton Romani; and the Chief of Staff of the Assistant Secretary General of the OAS, Carmen Lucía de la Pava.

For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.

Reference: FNE-17030