AG/RES. 1446 (XXVII-O/97)

ORGANIZATION OF THE WORK PERFORMED BY THE SUBSIDIARY ORGANS OF THE OAS COUNCILS

(Resolution adopted at the fifth plenary session, held on June 4, 1997)

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

HAVING SEEN the report of the Permanent Council on the organization of the work performed by the subsidiary organs of the OAS councils (AG/doc.3509/97);

CONSIDERING the growing number and broader scope of the Organization's mandates and the importance of ensuring complete and effective compliance therewith;

BEARING IN MIND:

The marked increase in meetings held by different subsidiary organs of the Organization's councils, resulting from the above-mentioned mandates, and the need for adequate preparation of these meetings; and

The limited physical, financial, and human resources of the Organization and the secretariats of the councils, particularly the Secretariat of Conferences and Meetings; and

CONVINCED of the need to make more efficient and effective use of those limited resources,

RESOLVES:

1. To instruct the Permanent Council to urgently study, through its Committee on Meetings and Organizations (CRO), the organization of the work performed by the subsidiary organs of the Organization's councils and to seek ways to streamline their efforts, so they may more efficiently and effectively carry out the mandates conferred on them.

2. To empower the Permanent Council and the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) to adopt, through its Permanent Executive Committee (CEPCIDI)—on the basis of recommendations by the CRO and preferably before the end of September 1997—organizational and/or structural measures deemed relevant for achieving the objectives of this resolution, including the adoption ad referendum of decisions requiring the authorization of the General Assembly.

3. To request CEPCIDI to cooperate fully with the CRO in conducting the aforementioned study and to take into account its recommendations in drafting the rules of procedure for CIDI's subsidiary organs.

4. To urge the General Secretariat to lend the greatest support possible to the work of the CRO in complying with this resolution, including the drafting of proposals or relevant documents, and to put into practice immediately the decisions duly made by the councils with a view to streamlining the work of their subsidiary organs.

5. To instruct the councils to report on compliance with this resolution to the General Assembly at its twenty-eighth regular session.