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AG/RES. 1582 (XXVIII-O/98)

FELLOWSHIP AND TRAINING PROGRAMS

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

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

HAVING SEEN the report of the Permanent Council on fellowship and training programs (AG/doc.3718/98);

BEARING IN MIND resolutions AG/RES. 1277 (XXIV-O/94), AG/RES. 1317 (XXV-O/95), AG/RES. 1381 (XXVI-O/96), and AG/RES. 1460 (XXVII-O/97);

REAFFIRMING that the member states attach high priority to the human resource training activities carried out through the OAS Fellowship and Training Programs;

CONSIDERING:

That the objective of the Fellowship and Training Programs is to support the development of human resources in the member states;

That, as a result, they should be guided by the development objectives and priorities of the Organization, as well as by the development needs of each member state; and

That the Permanent Council, through its Working Group, seeks to continue the work entrusted to it by the General Assembly; and

BEARING IN MIND the recommendations of the Meeting of the Working Group to Study the Fellowship and Training Programs with Authorities Responsible for Training and Fellowships, held on April 28 and 29, 1997 (GT/BECAP-28/97 rev. 2),

RESOLVES:

1. To take note of the Report of the Permanent Council on the Fellowship and Training Programs.

2. To reiterate the importance of completing a manual of clear and transparent procedures to govern the OAS Fellowship and Training Programs and, in this regard, to extend the mandate given to the Permanent Council in operative paragraph 3 of resolution AG/RES. 1460 (XXVII-O/97) until October 30, 1998.

3. To request the Permanent Council, through the Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Affairs, to complete its study of the establishment and financing of a Capital Fund as one of the instruments to finance the Fellowship and Training Programs of the Organization. 4. To request:

a. That the Secretary General invite member states and permanent observers to make voluntary contributions to the Capital Fund;

b. That the Secretary General, within allocated resources approved in the program-budget and other resources, seek and promote private-sector donations to the Capital Fund; and

c. That the Secretary General present a detailed report annually to the Permanent Council on the results of his efforts.

5. To request the Permanent Council to present a report to the General Assembly at its twenty-ninth regular session on the implementation of this resolution.

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