AG/RES. 1521 (XXVII-O/97)

REINFORCEMENT OF STATISTICAL AND COMPUTER SCIENCE SERVICES FOR PARTNERSHIP AND INTEGRAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE HEMISPHERE

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

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

HAVING SEEN:

Resolution AG/RES. 1354 (XXV-O/95), which establishes that the Organization must strengthen its capacity to exchange information, knowledge, and experiences;

The Strategic Plan for Partnership for Development 1997-2001, which includes the exchange of knowledge, information, and experiences as one of its five objectives; and

General Assembly resolution AG/RES. 1084 (XXI/O-91), establishing the Organization Plan for the Inter-American Statistical Conference (CIE), which specifies its nature, purposes, composition, and subordinate bodies; and

CONSIDERING:

That statistical information is a substantive component of that exchange of knowledge, information, and experiences, which furthers the Strategic Plan for Partnership for Development 1997-2001;

That, in order to make this exchange of information duly effective and efficient, it is necessary to harmonize the concepts, procedures, coverage, and reference periods of the information available in the member countries;

That renewed efforts at research and the development of methodology must be made in the member countries to produce the information required in such priority areas of the Organization as the promotion of democracy, the alleviation of poverty, the development of productive employment, trade and integration, sustainable development, tourism, and drug abuse control, as well as to provide data to support policies designed for groups at risk;

That, in order to move ahead in this area, it is necessary to strengthen and modernize the national statistical systems of the member countries and that partnership in this field is a useful and efficient instrument for supporting the modernization of those systems;

That the CIE serves as the inter-American forum at which the national statistical systems of the member countries can exchange experiences in order to harmonize their statistical definitions, nomenclatures, and methodologies and agree upon mechanisms for partnership in the area of statistics and computer science; and

That, as provided in the CIE Organization Plan, this Conference is represented by its Permanent Executive Committee (COM/CIE),

RESOLVES:

1. To instruct the Permanent Executive Committee of the Inter-American Statistical Conference (COM/CIE) to prepare a presentation on the activities of the Conference, to be taken into account by the Permanent Executive Committee of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CEPCIDI) in its examination of the specialized conferences requested in resolution CIDI/RES. 18 (II-O/97), "Specialized Conferences."

2. To request CEPCIDI to present to the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) any recommendations it deems advisable and to report on the measures adopted in this area to the General Assembly at its twenty-eighth regular session.