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PROTOCOL OF AMENDMENT TO THE CHARTER OF THE
IN THE NAME OF THEIR PEOPLES, THE AMERICAN STATES REPRESENTED AT THE
NINETEENTH SPECIAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, MEETING IN MANAGUA,
NICARAGUA, HAVE AGREED UPON THE FOLLOWING
PROTOCOL OF AMENDMENT TO THE CHARTER
ARTICLE
I
The following new articles are added to Chapters XIII and XVII of the
Charter of the Organization of American States, as numbered below:
In order to achieve its various goals, especially in the specific area of
technical cooperation, the Inter-American Council for Integral Development
shall:
a)
Formulate and recommend to the General Assembly a strategic plan which
sets forth policies, programs, and courses of action in matters of cooperation
for integral development, within the framework of the general policy and
priorities defined by the General Assembly.
b)
Formulate guidelines for the preparation of the program-budget for
technical cooperation and for the other activities of the Council.
c)
Promote, coordinate, and assign responsibility for the execution of
development programs and projects to the subsidiary bodies and relevant
organizations, on the basis of the priorities identified by the Member States,
in areas such as:
1) Economic
and social development, including trade, tourism, integration and the
environment;
2) Improvement
and extension of education to cover all levels, promotion of scientific and
technological research, through technical cooperation, and support for cultural
activities; and
3) Strengthening
of the civic conscience of the American peoples, as one of the bases for the
effective exercise of democracy and for the observance of the rights and duties
of man.
These ends shall be furthered by sectoral participation mechanisms and
other subsidiary bodies and organizations established by the Charter and by
other General Assembly provisions.
d)
Establish cooperative relations with the corresponding bodies of the
United Nations and with other national and international agencies, especially
with regard to coordination of inter-American technical cooperation programs.
e)
Periodically evaluate cooperation activities for integral development, in
terms of their performance in the implementation of policies, programs, and
projects, in terms of their impact, effectiveness, efficiency, and use of
resources, and in terms of the quality, inter alia, of the technical cooperation
services provided; and report to the General Assembly.
Article 96
The Inter-American Council for Integral Development shall have the
nonpermanent specialized committees which it decides to establish and which are
required for the proper performance of its functions.
Those committees shall operate and shall be composed as stipulated in the
Statutes of the Council.
Article 97 The execution and, if appropriate, the coordination, of approved projects shall be entrusted to the Executive Secretariat for Integral Development, which shall report on the results of that execution to the Council.
Article 122
The Secretary General shall appoint, with the approval of the
Inter-American Council for Integral Development, an Executive Secretary for
Integral Development.
ARTICLE
II
The texts of the following articles of the Charter of the Organization of
American States are amended to read as follows:
Article 69
The Permanent Council of the Organization and the Inter-American Council
for Integral Development are directly responsible to the General Assembly, and
each has the authority granted to it in the Charter and other inter-American
instruments, as well as the functions assigned to it by the General Assembly and
the Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs.
Article 92
The Inter-American Council for Integral Development is composed of one
principal representative, of ministerial or equivalent rank, for each Member
State, especially appointed by the respective Government.
In keeping with the provisions of the Charter, the Inter-American Council
for Integral Development may establish the subsidiary bodies and the agencies
that it considers advisable for the better performance of its duties.
Article 93
The purpose of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development is to
promote cooperation among the American States for the purpose of achieving
integral development and, in particular, helping to eliminate extreme poverty,
in accordance with the standards of the Charter, especially those set forth in
Chapter VII with respect to the economic, social, educational, cultural,
scientific, and technological fields.
Article 95
The Inter-American Council for Integral Development shall hold at least
one meeting each year at the ministerial or equivalent level. It shall also have the right to convene meetings at the same
level for the specialized or sectorial topics it considers relevant, within its
province or sphere of competence. It
shall also meet when convoked by the General Assembly or the Meeting of
Consultation of Foreign Ministers, or on its own initiative, or for the cases
envisaged in Article 36 of the Charter.
ARTICLE
III
The following articles are deleted from the Charter of the Organization
of American States: 94, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103 and 122.
ARTICLE
IV
The title of Chapter XIII of the Charter of the Organization of American
States is amended to read as follows: "The Inter-American Council for
Integral Development".
Chapter XIV is deleted. The
remaining Chapters of the Charter of the Organization of American States are
therefore renumbered, beginning with Chapter XIV, which becomes Chapter XV, and
so on successively.
ARTICLE
V
The following articles of the Charter of the Organization of American
States are renumbered, beginning with Article 98, which becomes Article 104, and
so on successively until the end of the Charter.
ARTICLE
VI The General Secretariat shall prepare a consolidated text of the Charter of the Organization of American States, which shall include the unamended provisions of the original Charter, the amendments that were introduced by the Protocols of Buenos Aires and Cartagena de Indias, and the amendments introduced by subsequent Protocols at such time as they shall enter into force.
ARTICLE VII The present Protocol shall remain open for signature by the Member States of the Organization of American States and shall be ratified in accordance with their respective constitutional procedures. The original instrument, the English, French, Portuguese and Spanish texts of which are equally authentic, shall be deposited with the General Secretariat, which shall transmit certified copies thereof to the Governments for purposes of ratification. The instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the General Secretariat, which shall notify the signatory States of such deposit.
ARTICLE VIII
The present Protocol shall enter into force among the ratifying States
when two-thirds of the signatory States have deposited their instruments of
ratification. This Protocol shall
enter into force with respect to the remaining States in the order in which they
deposit their instruments of ratification.
ARTICLE
IX
The present Protocol shall be registered with the Secretariat of the
United Nations through the General Secretariat of the Organization of American
States. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries, being duly authorized by their Governments so to do, sign the present Protocol, which shall be called the "Protocol of Managua", in the city of Managua, Nicaragua on the tenth day of June in the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-three. |
