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AG/RES. 1541 (XXVIII-O/98)

ANNUAL SCHEDULE OF CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS

(Resolution adopted at the third plenary session, held on June 2, 1998)

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

HAVING SEEN the report by the Permanent Council on the chronological list of conferences and meetings (AG/doc.3718/98);

RECALLING its resolution "Annual Schedule of Conferences and Meetings of the Organization of American States," [AG/RES. 205 (V-O/75)], which, inter alia, instructed the General Secretariat to present a full list of conferences or meetings by categories to the Permanent Council each year and to also provide the Council every three months with a chronological list containing only the date, designation, and place of each meeting;

RECOGNIZING that the General Secretariat has up to the present time complied with the provisions of the above-mentioned resolution;

BEARING IN MIND that since the date of the above-cited resolution significant developments have taken place within the Organization that impact on the holding of conferences by the Organization itself, as well as by its councils, the General Secretariat, and the organs, agencies, and entities of the inter-American system;

AWARE of the advanced information-processing technologies available to the Organization and to member states;

CONSIDERING that the utilization of these technologies would greatly facilitate the timely and efficient provision of information on conferences and meetings and would also afford easy and ready access to such information by member states; and

REAFFIRMING that the Permanent Council should be kept informed of the conferences and meetings scheduled by the Organization, including its councils and the General Secretariat, and by the organs, agencies, and entities of the inter-American system,

RESOLVES:

1. To instruct the General Secretariat, through its Secretariat for Conferences and Meetings and in collaboration with the Department of Public Information, to provide henceforth to the Permanent Council the annual schedule of conferences and meetings, as described in resolution AG/RES. 205 (V-O/75), by publishing it on the OAS Home Page on the Internet.

2. To instruct the General Secretariat, through its Secretariat for Conferences and Meetings, to update the said annual schedule of conferences and meetings as necessary, based on updated information presented by the respective conference or meeting organizers, and also in accordance with any recommendations by member states presented through the Permanent Council or the Permanent Executive Committee of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development.

3. To request the inclusion in the said annual schedule of any conferences or meetings, differentiated by category, being held within the Hemisphere which may be of interest to member states.

4. To instruct the General Secretariat, through its Secretariat for Conferences and Meetings, and in collaboration with the Department of Public Information and the Department of Management Systems and Information Technology, to design forthwith an improved format for the publication of the said annual schedule on the Internet, and to submit it to the Permanent Council for its consideration.

5. To request that the various organs, agencies, and entities of the inter-American system provide, in a timely manner, to the General Secretariat, through the Secretariat for Conferences and Meetings, pertinent written information on their respective conferences and meetings.

6. To request that the Secretary General transmit this resolution to the organs, agencies, and entities of the inter-American system.

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