PERMANENT
COUNCIL OF THE OEA/Ser.G
ORGANIZATION
OF AMERICAN STATES CP/CAJP-1942/02
30 April 2002
COMMITTEE ON
JURIDICAL AND POLITICAL AFFAIRS Original: Spanish
DRAFT RESOLUTION
INTER-AMERICAN CONVENTION AGAINST
TERRORISM
(Presented by the Chair of the
Working Group)
DRAFT RESOLUTION
INTER-AMERICAN CONVENTION AGAINST
TERRORISM
(Presented by the Chair of the
Working Group)
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
REAFFIRMING the principles and provisions contained in
the Charter of the Organization of American States and the Charter of the
United Nations;
RECOGNIZING the threat that terrorism poses to international peace and
security and that it is a source of profound concern to all member states;
CONVINCED that the codification and progressive
development of international law contributes to the peaceful development of
international relations and that the Charter of the Organization of American
States and international law constitute the appropriate hemispheric framework
for preventing, combating, and eliminating terrorism in all its forms and
manifestations;
RECALLING resolution RC.23/RES. 1/01, “Strengthening Hemispheric Cooperation to Prevent, Combat, and
Eliminate Terrorism” of the Organization of
American States of September 21, 2001, which entrusted the Permanent Council of
the Organization with preparing a draft Inter-American Convention against
Terrorism;[EB5][EB2]
RECALLING the
Declaration of Lima to Prevent, Combat, and Eliminate Terrorism and the Plan of
Action on Hemispheric Cooperation to Prevent, Combat, and Eliminate Terrorism,
adopted within the framework of the First Inter-American Specialized Conference
on Terrorism, in Lima, Peru, in April 1996, as well as the Commitment of Mar
del Plata, adopted at the Second Inter-American Specialized
Conference on Terrorism, and the work of the Inter-American Committee against
Terrorism (CICTE);[EB5][EB4]
CONSIDERING that terrorism is a serious criminal
phenomenon, which is of deep concern to all member states and which violates
human rights, fundamental freedoms, and democratic values and threatens the
security of states, destabilizing and undermining the foundations of civil
society and having a pernicious impact on the economic and social development
of states in the region;
BEARING
IN MIND the Inter-American Democratic Charter with regard to the commitment by
member states to promote and defend representative democracy and that no
democratic state may remain indifferent to the threat that terrorism poses to
democratic institutions and freedoms;
REAFFIRMING that the fight against terrorism must entail
full respect for the law, human rights, international humanitarian law, and
democratic freedoms, so as to preserve the rule of law and democratic freedoms
and values in the Hemisphere, which are essential components of a successful
fight against terrorism;
UNDERSCORING
the importance of effective action in cutting off the supply of funds for
terrorism, and of coordinated action with international entities competent in
the area of money laundering, especially the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control
Commission (CICAD);
RECOGNIZING the urgency of strengthening and
establishing new forms of regional cooperation against terrorism with a view to
eradicating it;
RECOGNIZING the importance and timeliness of the existing international
legal materials on combating terrorism, both the 10 international instruments
considered for the text of the Inter-American Convention against Terrorism
itself and the Convention to Prevent and Punish the Acts of Terrorism Taking
the Forms of Crimes against Persons and Related Extortion That Are of
International Significance, adopted by the General Assembly itself on February
2, 1971; the Convention on Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board
Aircraft, adopted in Tokyo on September 14, 1963; and the Convention on the
Marking of Plastic Explosives for the Purpose of Detection, adopted in Montreal
on March 1, 1991; and[EB5]
EXPRESSING APPRECIATION to the member states for their
active and productive participation in the Working Group to prepare the
Inter-American Convention against Terrorism,
RESOLVES:
1. To adopt the
Inter-American Convention against Terrorism attached to this resolution and to
open it for signature by the member states on this date.
2. To urge the states to
ratify it as soon as possible, in accordance with their domestic constitutional
procedures.
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3. To request the Secretary General to
present a report to the General Assembly at its thirty-third regular session on
progress made toward the Convention’s entry into force.