AG/RES. 1573 (XXVIII-O/98)

PROPOSAL TO TRANSFORM THE INTER-AMERICAN PORT AND HARBOR CONFERENCE INTO THE INTER-AMERICAN PORTS COMMISSION

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

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

HAVING SEEN:

Resolution AG/RES. 1515 (XXVII-O/97), "Request to Transform the Inter-American Port and Harbor Conference into an Inter-American Ports Commission"; and

Resolution CIDI/RES. 29 (III-O/98), "Proposal to Transform the Inter-American Port and Harbor Conference into a Special Inter-American Committee on Ports";

CONSIDERING:

That according to Article 77 of the Charter of the Organization, the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) has the authority to establish the subsidiary organs that it deems appropriate, with the approval of the General Assembly;

That there is a need to reorient toward CIDI the dialogue currently taking place in some specialized conferences whose topics correspond to the areas of inter-American cooperation within the purview of CIDI; and

That the Inter-American Port and Harbor Conference does not have an organizational plan to govern its structure and functioning that has been approved by the General Assembly, as stipulated in Article 29 of resolution AG/RES. 85 (II-O/72), "Standards for Inter-American Specialized Conferences"; and

BEARING IN MIND that CIDI approved the establishment of the Special Inter-American Committee on Ports contingent upon acceptance by the Permanent Executive Committee of CIDI (CEPCIDI) of the opinions set forth in operative paragraph 1 of resolution CIDI/RES. 29 (III-O/98), "Proposal to Transform the Inter-American Port and Harbor Conference into a Special Inter-American Committee on Ports," and of its legal-institutional structure, as well as its financial implications for the Organization,

RESOLVES:

1. To approve the establishment of the Special Inter-American Committee on Ports, contingent upon the acceptance by the Permanent Executive Committee of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CEPCIDI) of the requirements specified in resolution CIDI/RES. 29 (III-O/98).

2. To dissolve the Inter-American Port and Harbor Conference once the Special Inter-American Committee on Ports begins to function.