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AG/RES. 1448 (XXVII-O/97)

SUPPORT FOR THE SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS INITIATIVES

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

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

HAVING SEEN the report of the Special Committee on Inter-American Summits Management to the ministers of foreign affairs, presented in compliance with resolution AG/RES. 1377 (XXVI-O/96) (CP/doc.2932/97);

CONSIDERING:

That, in resolution AG/RES. 1349 (XXV-O/95), the General Assembly set up a Special Committee of the Permanent Council on Inter-American Summits Management to ensure effective, timely, and appropriate follow-up of the activities assigned to the Organization by the Summit of the Americas;

That, in resolution AG/RES. 1377 (XXVI-O/96), the General Assembly reaffirmed the mandate of the Special Committee and instructed it to submit a written report each year to the foreign ministers at the regular session of the General Assembly on the progress made in implementing that resolution; and

That, as noted by the Special Committee in its report, it has not yet received reports from all of the organs, agencies, and entities of the Organization from which such reports had been requested; and

BEARING IN MIND that, as provided for in Article 12 of the Rules of Procedure of the Permanent Council, special committees are temporary,

RESOLVES:

1. To thank the Permanent Council for transmitting the report of its Special Committee on Inter-American Summits Management, prepared in compliance with resolutions AG/RES. 1349 (XXV-O/95) and AG/RES. 1377 (XXVI-O/96).

2. To urge those organs, agencies, and entities of the Organization that have not yet done so to respond to the request made by the Special Committee for reports on their activities relating to the implementation of the initiatives of the Summit Plan of Action.

3. To reaffirm the mandate of the Special Committee, as set forth in resolution AG/RES. 1349 (XXV-O/95), and to instruct it to present a written report on the progress made in implementing this resolution to the foreign ministers, through the Permanent Council, at the twenty-eighth regular session of the General Assembly.

4. To note with satisfaction the work accomplished by the Special Committee's Working Group on Democracy and Human Rights, and to request the Special Committee to extend the Working Group's mandate.

5. To thank the General Secretariat for the support provided to the Special Committee and to instruct the General Secretariat to continue providing such assistance as necessary.

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