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AG/DEC. 20 (XXIX-O/99)

SUPPORT FOR PARAGUAYAN DEMOCRACY AND FOR THE STRENGTHENING AND NORMALIZATION OF ITS INSTITUTIONS

(Declaration adopted at the third plenary session, held on June 8, 1999)

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

BEARING IN MIND that representative democracy is an indispensable condition for the stability, peace, and development of the region;

HAVING TAKEN NOTE of the events that took place in Paraguay from March 23 to 28, 1999, as a result of the institutional crisis brought on by attacks against the effective application of the rule of law, which threatened political stability and the institutional process in Paraguay;

BEARING IN MIND that, on March 23, 1999, the Vice President of the Republic of Paraguay, Dr. Luis María Argaña, was brutally assassinated;

ASSERTING that the assassination of that public figure was an attack on the democratic institutions, the political stability, and the rule of law in Paraguay;

BEARING IN MIND that solving crimes with political connotations is essential to the preservation of democratic institutions and the rule of law;

RECOGNIZING the democratic values and spirit of Paraguayan society and, in particular, of its young people, who, in the face of the grave institutional crisis, exhibited an exemplary national consensus on the need to preserve the democratic process, defending the rule of law and democratic institutions, even with their lives; and

REASSERTING that the effective exercise of democracy and the rule of law are necessary conditions for ensuring the observance of human rights in a society,

DECLARES:

1. Its strong condemnation and repudiation of the assassination of the Vice President of the Republic of Paraguay, Dr. Luis María Argaña.

2. Its support for Paraguayan democracy and for the strengthening and normalization of its institutions.

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