AG/RES. 1282 (XXIV-O/94)

STRENGTHENING OF THE OAS

(Resolution adopted at the tenth plenary session, held on June 10, 1994)

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

HAVING SEEN:

The Report of the Consultation Group on the Inter-American System (AG/doc.2695/91);

Resolution AG/RES. 1 (XIX-E/93) "Amendments of the Charter of the Organization as regards Technical Cooperation";

The General Policy Framework and Priorities: Partnership for Development [AG/RES. 1 (XX-E/94)] and the Commitment on a Partnership for Development and Struggle to Overcome Extreme Poverty [AG/DEC. 1 (XX-E/94)]; and

The Report of the Permanent Council on the Strengthening of the OAS (AG/doc.3093/94);

CONSIDERING:

That through resolution AG/RES. 986 (XIX-O/89), it mandated the Permanent Council to develop a Program of Action for the Strengthening of the OAS based on the premises agreed upon in the resolution "Strengthening of the OAS" (RTM/FOEA/RES. 1/89), adopted by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of member states of the Organization;

That through resolution AG/RES. 1234 (XXIII-O/93), it mandated the Permanent Council to continue study of the topics mandated in resolution AG/RES. 986 (XIX-O/89) and still pending, and to report to the twenty-fourth regular session of the General Assembly;

That through resolution AG/RES. 814 (XVI-O/86) it established the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD);

That through resolution AG/RES. 1220 (XXIII-O/93) it established the Special Committee on Trade (CEC); and

That the Permanent Council expanded the mandate of the Working Group on the Strengthening of the OAS, pursuant to operative paragraph 7 of the Commitment on a Partnership for Development and Struggle to Overcome Poverty,

RESOLVES:

  1. To take note of the Report on the Strengthening of the OAS presented by the Permanent Council.

  2. To ask the Special Committee on Trade to undertake study of the topic, Trade, initially assigned to it.

  3. To ask the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission to consider the topic still pending on Drug Abuse Control which had initially been assigned to the Working Group on the Strengthening of the OAS.

  4. To ask the erIJdP4 2 new mandate entrusted to the Working Group on the Strengthening of the OAS, as well as any recommendations that it may deem pertinent, to facilitate the process of transition until such time that the Inter-American Council for Integral Development starts operating, in accordance with operative paragraphs 7 and 8 of the Commitment on a Partnership for Development and Struggle to Overcome Extreme Poverty [AG/DEC. 1 (XX-E/94)].

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