AG/RES. 1847 (XXXII-O/02)
SUPPORT FOR AND FOLLOW-UP TO THE SUMMITS OF THE
AMERICAS PROCESS
(Adopted
at the fourth plenary session held on June 4, 2002)
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
HAVING SEEN the Report of the Permanent Council on Support for and
Follow-up to the Summits of the Americas Process 2001-2002 (CP/doc.3594/02),
presented pursuant to resolution AG/RES. 1824 (XXX1-O/01);
BEARING IN MIND the Summits initiatives emanating from the First Summit
of the Americas (Miami, 1994); the Summit Conference on Sustainable
Development (Santa Cruz de la Sierra, 1996); the Second Summit of the Americas
(Santiago, 1998); and the Third Summit of the Americas (Quebec City, 2001);
RECALLING that, in resolution AG/RES. 1349 (XXV-O/95), the General
Assembly established a Special Committee of the Permanent Council on
Inter-American Summits Management, open to all member states, to ensure
effective, timely, and appropriate follow-up to the activities assigned to the
Organization by the Summit of the Americas and to coordinate OAS preparation,
participation, and follow-up with regard to future Summits;
RECOGNIZING that the Special Committee has served as the framework for
civil society participation in the Summits of the Americas process;
RECALLING ALSO:
The mandates set out in the Quebec City Plan of Action in the section
on “Follow-up to the Plan of Action”; and
That the Declaration of Quebec City recognizes the significant results
of the ministerial meetings held in support of the Summit mandates;
NOTING WITH SATISFACTION the creation of the Joint Summit Working
Group, comprised of the Organization of American States (OAS), the
Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), the Economic
Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Inter-American
Development Bank (IDB), the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), the Corporación
Andina de Fomento, the Caribbean Development Bank, and the Central
American Bank for Economic Integration, with the participation of the World
Bank; and
RECOGNIZING the importance of coordinated, timely, and effective
follow-up to the Quebec City Plan of Action and its predecessors, and of
timely, effective support in the preparatory work for the Fourth Summit of the
Americas, and the important role of the OAS therein,
RESOLVES:
1.
To renew the mandate to the Permanent Council to coordinate the
activities assigned to the Organization of American States by the Summits of
the Americas.
2.
To instruct the organs, agencies, and entities of the Organization to
continue to give top priority to carrying out the initiatives assigned to them
by the General Assembly, pursuant to the mandates of the Summits of the
Americas, and to report regularly to the Special Committee in this regard.
3.
To request the General Secretariat to continue to act, through its
Office of Summit Follow-up, as the technical secretariat and institutional
memory of the Summits process, in accordance with the Plan of Action of the
Quebec City Summit.
4.
To instruct the Permanent Council to continue facilitating the
participation of civil society in the Summits of the Americas process.
5.
To recommend that the Joint Summit Working Group continue to serve as
the coordinating mechanism for the institutions supporting the implementation
of Summit mandates and to hold at least one high level meeting a year.
6.
To request the General Secretariat to continue providing the necessary
support to ministerial and sectoral meetings related to the implementation of
Summit mandates on topics relevant to the OAS.
7.
To instruct the Permanent Council to allocate resources in the
program-budget of the Organization that allow for the execution of this
resolution, and to instruct the Secretary General to seek additional resources
to carry out the activities mentioned in this resolution.
8.
To request the Permanent Council to report to the foreign ministers at
the thirty-third regular session of the General Assembly on the implementation
of this resolution.
