AG/RES. 1349 (XXV-O/95)

INTER-AMERICAN SUMMITS MANAGEMENT

(Resolution adopted at the ninth plenary session, held on June 9, 1995)

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

HAVING SEEN resolution AG/RES. 997 (XIX-O/89), "Summit Meeting of Heads of State and of Government," which affirmed the need for a summit meeting of heads of state and government to seek solutions to the problems of all members states of the Organization of American States;

CONSIDERING:

That, in resolution AG/RES. 1254 (XXIV-O/94), "Summit of the Americas," the General Assembly instructed the Permanent Council "to prepare, in coordination with the Secretary General, the contribution of the Organization of American States to the Summit of the Americas and the follow-up of the pertinent recommendations emanating therefrom" and "to set up a working group which may, as necessary, convene special preparatory meetings for this purpose";

That the Permanent Council established a Working Group on the Summit of the Americas at its regular meeting on June 30, 1994, and that the Group identified areas in which the OAS could contribute to the Summit;

That the Summit of the Americas was held in Miami from December 9

to 11, 1994, and that 34 leaders of the Hemisphere approved the Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action; and

That the Organization of American States is the main political forum for dialogue, understanding, and cooperation among the hemispheric countries and is an institution created by the member states to strengthen peace and security, promote and consolidate representative democracy, support national development efforts, and contribute to the elimination of extreme poverty, while scrupulously observing the principle of nonintervention in the internal or external affairs of other states;

TAKING NOTE that the Summit Conference on Sustainable Development will take place in Bolivia in 1996;

RECOGNIZING the importance of coordinated and efficient follow-up of the Plan of Action of the Summit of the Americas to ensure timely and effective implementation of the initiatives assigned to the OAS by the heads of state and government; and

REAFFIRMING:

That primary responsibility for implementing the Plan of Action falls to the governments, individually and collectively, with the participation of all elements of their civil societies;

That existing organizations and institutions such as the OAS were called upon to implement initiatives that emerged from the Summit of the Americas; and

That the OAS will have a paramount role to play in following up on the various decisions of the Summit of the Americas,

RESOLVES:

  1. To take note with satisfaction of the report of the Permanent Council on the Summit of the Americas and to approve the annexed chart entitled: "Chart of Items from the Plan of Action of the Summit of the Americas in Which the OAS Will Have a Role."

  2. To require the organs, agencies, and entities of the Organization identified in the aforementioned chart to give priority consideration to implementation of the initiatives included in the Plan of Action adopted by the Summit of the Americas in which the OAS has been asked to play a role and to report regularly to the Permanent Council on the progress of their respective tasks concerning these matters.

  3. To instruct the Permanent Council to inform other regional and subregional governmental entities and institutions that are called upon to assist in implementing the initiatives of the Plan of Action of the Organization's interest in receiving information on their activities and to request that they provide the Permanent Council with this information on a regular basis.

  4. To set up a Special Committee of the Permanent Council on Inter-American Summits Management, open to all member states, to ensure effective, timely, and appropriate follow-up to the activities assigned to the Organization by the Summit of the Americas and to coordinate, if so decided, OAS preparation, participation, and follow-up with regard to future summits involving all member states in whose implementation and follow-up the OAS is called upon to participate.

  5. To instruct the Special Committee to meet at least once a month to request and receive reports on a regular basis from any organ, agency, or entity of the OAS and to comment on these reports and provide specific guidance, direction, and tasking to these organs, agencies, and entities in accordance with its mandate, as stated in paragraph 4.

  6. To instruct the Special Committee to report in writing through the Permanent Council to the foreign ministers in December of each year and at each regular session of the General Assembly on the progress made in implementing this resolution.

  7. To instruct the Secretary General to support the Special Committee in the implementation of this resolution.

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