AG/RES. 1483 (XXVII-O/97)

PROCEDURES FOR PREPARING AND ADOPTING INTER-AMERICAN LEGAL INSTRUMENTS WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES

(Resolution adopted at the seventh plenary session, held on June 5, 1997)

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

HAVING SEEN the report of the Chair of the Permanent Council on procedures for preparing and adopting inter-American legal instruments within the Organization of American States, as provided for in resolutions AG/RES. 1329 (XXV-O/95) and AG/RES. 1391 (XXVI-O/96); and

CONSIDERING:

That, in resolution AG/RES. 1329 (XXV-O/95), the General Assembly instructed the General Secretariat to prepare draft guidelines covering the entire process of preparation of inter-American legal instruments for review and comment by the Inter-American Juridical Committee and for submission to the Permanent Council, which would present a report to the General Assembly at its twenty-sixth regular session;

That, in resolution AG/RES. 1391 (XXVI-O/96), the General Assembly renewed the mandate given in that resolution and requested the Inter-American Juridical Committee to present to the Permanent Council as soon as possible its comments on the study prepared by the General Secretariat, in order to enable the Permanent Council to present the report in question to the General Assembly at its twenty-seventh regular session; and

That the General Secretariat has prepared the requested study, in respect of which the Inter-American Juridical Committee made its observations during its regular session held in February and March 1997,

RESOLVES:

To request the Permanent Council to continue its consideration of the topic, taking into account the studies prepared by the General Secretariat and the Inter-American Juridical Committee, so that it might present a report on draft guidelines for the entire process of preparation of inter-American legal instruments to the General Assembly at its twenty-eighth regular session, for possible adoption.