AG/RES. 1512 (XXVII-O/97)

INTER-AMERICAN PROGRAM TO COMBAT POVERTY AND DISCRIMINATION

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

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

HAVING SEEN:

Resolution AG/RES. 1424 (XXVI-O/96), "Inter-American Program for Overcoming Poverty";

The Inter-American Program to Combat Poverty and Discrimination, approved by the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) at its Second Regular Meeting through resolution CIDI/RES. 10 (II-O/97); and

The report of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) on the Inter-American Program to Combat Poverty and Discrimination (CEPCIDI/doc.69/97 rev.),

RESOLVES:

1. To adopt the Inter-American Program to Combat Poverty and Discrimination, approved by the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) as part of the Strategic Plan for Partnership for Development 1997-2001.

2. To entrust CIDI with continuing to give high priority to partnership activities and projects aimed at overcoming poverty and discrimination in the Hemisphere.

3. To reiterate its request to the Secretary General that he submit to the Permanent Executive Committee of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CEPCIDI) by September 30, 1997, for its approval, the 1998 annual program of activities for the Unit for Social Development and Education, and that he present quarterly progress reports on said program.

4. To entrust CIDI, through CEPCIDI, with supporting the execution of the Inter-American Program to Combat Poverty and Discrimination with the collaboration of the General Secretariat. To this end, the Executive Secretariat for Integral Development shall coordinate the necessary support tasks with the relevant offices of the General Secretariat and, in particular, with the Unit for Social Development and Education.

5. To request CIDI to report on the implementation of this resolution to the General Assembly at its twenty-eighth regular session.