AG/RES. 1554 (XXVIII-O/98)

MEETING OF GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES ON ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS

(Resolution adopted at the third plenary session, held on June 2, 1998)

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

HAVING SEEN the report of the Permanent Council on the Meeting of Government Representatives on Electoral Campaign Contributions (AG/doc.3718/98) and the final report of that meeting (RECEL/doc.19/98 rev. 2);

BEARING IN MIND that the Meeting of Government Representatives on Electoral Campaign Contributions was held in February 1998 in Caracas, Venezuela, according to the terms established by the General Assembly in resolution AG/RES. 1485 (XXVII-O/97);

CONSIDERING:

That the General Assembly, in resolution AG/RES. 1485 (XXVII-O/97), requested the Permanent Council to report on the fulfillment of the resolution at its twenty-eighth regular session; and

That the Meeting of Government Representatives on Electoral Campaign Contributions adopted recommendations on the subject (RECEL/doc.19/98 rev. 2); and

REITERATING that there is increasing concern in the Hemisphere that the effective exercise of representative democracy, a fundamental principle enshrined in the OAS Charter, may be threatened by contributions that undermine the integrity of the electoral process,

RESOLVES:

1. To thank the Government of the Republic of Venezuela for hosting the Meeting of Government Representatives on Electoral Campaign Contributions and for ensuring its success.

2. To instruct the Permanent Council to take any measures it deems advisable so as to continue its consideration of the topic, bearing in mind the recommendations adopted at the Meeting of Government Representatives on Electoral Campaign Contributions, including consideration of convening a second governmental meeting, and to present its report to the General Assembly at its twenty-ninth regular session.

3. To instruct the General Secretariat to continue to compile laws governing electoral campaign contributions and to continue its comparative studies of those laws.