Article 26
The Agenda of the
Inaugural Plenary Session of the Model OAS General Assembly shall
include the following (in order):
- Opening statements
by the President of the Model OAS General Assembly;
- Establishment of
the Order of Precedence of delegations by lot;
- Reaching agreement
on the Plenary Session's Modus Operandi;
- Additions to, or
deletions from, the Draft Agenda;
- Assignments of
topics to committees; and
- Adoption of the
agenda.
Article 27
Approval of motions to
adopt the agenda or to change it in any way requires 2/3-majority
vote of the member states.
Article 28
Once the agenda has been
adopted at the Inaugural Plenary Session, no new agenda topics
may be added.
Article 29
The Second Plenary
Session shall be for the express purpose of hearing general
statements by the Head Delegates of those delegations that have
previously requested this privilege.
Article 30
There shall be a closing
plenary session for the express purpose of adopting or rejecting
all resolutions of a courtesy nature as may be introduced
directly at this plenary session.
Article 31
The first session of
each committee shall have as its order of business the following
topics:
- Opening statement
by the Committee Chairpersons;
- Introduction of the
Committee Officers and staff (Vice Chairperson,
Rapporteur, Vice Rapporteur, Technical Secretary, and OAS
Consultant(s);
- Brief comments by
OAS Consultants on matters pertaining to the committee's
agenda topics and functioning'
- Discussion of
possible changes in the order of topics and adoption of
final order of agenda topics;
- Agreement on the
committee's particular Modus Operandi.
Article 32
The second committee
session shall be for the express purpose of receiving draft
resolutions, which shall herein after be referred to as
"proposals."
Article 33
The third committee
session shall be for the express purpose of:
- Distributing copies
of proposals which have been accepted for debate; and
- Establishing
working groups and deadlines for presentation of the
working groups' joint proposals.
Article 34
The Chairperson of the
Third Committee (Administrative and Budget matters) shall set a
deadline for receiving from all other committees resolutions
having budgetary implications. The resolutions are to be
presented to the Rapporteur of the Third Committee following
their adoption in the committees of origin.
Article 35
The agenda of the last
session of each committee shall include:
- Election of the
Committee Vice-Chairperson for the next session of the
Model OAS General Assembly (except in the case of the
General Committee);
- Election of a
Committee Chairperson for the next session of the Model
OAS General Assembly (except in the case of the General
Committee);
- Closing remarks by
the Committee Vice-Chairperson;
- In the General
Committee only, the acceptance of the dates for the next
session of the Model OAS General Assembly.
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