AG/RES. 1612 (XXIX-O/99)

MEETING OF GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES ON ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS

(Resolution adopted at the first plenary session, held on June 7, 1999)

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

HAVING SEEN the annual report of the Permanent Council on the Meeting of Government Representatives on Electoral Campaign Contributions (CP/CAJP-1492/99), presented pursuant to resolution AG/RES. 1554 (XXVIII-O/98);

NOTING the interest expressed by the delegations attending the Meeting of Government Representatives on Electoral Campaign Contributions, held in Caracas, Venezuela, in February 1998, and the recommendations of that meeting (RECEL/doc.19/98 rev. 2);

CONSIDERING that resolution AG/RES. 1554 (XXVIII-O/98) instructed the Permanent Council to continue its consideration of the topic, bearing in mind the recommendations adopted at the Meeting of Government Representatives on Electoral Campaign Contributions; and

CONSIDERING ALSO that the above-mentioned resolution reiterated the "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 extend the mandate assigned to the Permanent Council through resolution AG/RES. 1554 (XXVIII-O/98), "Meeting of Government Representatives on Electoral Campaign Contributions," and to request that the Permanent Council accord it due priority.

2. To reiterate to the General Secretariat that it continue to compile laws governing electoral campaign contributions and to continue its comparative studies of those laws.