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« April 2008 »

OAS commemorates 60th aniversary of its Charter

Date: April 30, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
Communiqués de presse | Discours | Vidéo
Signing of cooperation agreement between the Inter-American Children’s Institute and the Secretariat of the Ibero-American Organization

Date: April 30, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
Ambassador Glenda Morean-Phillip, the Trinidad and Tobago Permanent Representative, presents credentials to OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza

Date: April 30, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
Closing session of the VII Meeting of Ministers of Justice or Ministers or Attorneys General of the Americas

Date: April 30, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
MINISTROS DE JUSTICIA CLAUSURAN ENCUENTRO CON AVANCES EN COOPERACIÓN HEMISFÉRICA DE CARÁCTER JUDICIAL
Regular Meeting of the OAS Permanent Council  

Date: April 29, 2008
Place: Liberator Simón Bolívar Room, OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
The OAS’ Secretary General, José Miguel Insulza, is presented the Medalha do Pacificador (Peacemaker Medal) awarded by the government of Brazil

Date: April 29, 2008
Place: Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza meets with General Attorney of Dominican Republic, Ramadés Jiménez

Date: April 29, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza meets with the Minister of Justice of Chile, Carlos Maldonado  

Date: April 29, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza participating at the opening ceremony for the Latin Vanguard 2008, at the Inter-American Development Bank

Date: April 29, 2008
Place: Enrique V. IglesiasConference Center (EVICC)
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza meets with the President of Guatemala, Álvaro Colom

Date: April 29, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
Inaugural Session of the VII Meeting of Ministers of Justice or Ministers or Attorneys General of the Americas

Date: April 29, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
CON UN LLAMADO A FORTALECER LA COOPERACIÓN PARA COMBATIR EL CRIMEN ORGANIZADO, SE INICIA LA VII REUNIÓN DE MINISTROS DE JUSTICIA DE LAS AMÉRICAS
OAS Assistant Secretary General, Albert Ramdin, meets with the Permanent Representative of Guatemala, Ambassador Jorge Skinner-Klee

Date: April 28, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin meets with the Minister of Justice and Police of Surinam, Chandrikapersad SANTHOKI

Date: April 28, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS and Government of Panama sign Memorandum of Understanding on Exchange of Information for Mutual Assistance in Criminal and Extradition Matters

Date: April 28, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza meets with the Ambassador of Denmark, Friis Arne Petersen

Date: April 28, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza meets with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belize, Wilfred Elrington

Date: April 28, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
OAS Permanent Council receives the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia, David Choquehuanca Céspedes

Date: April 26, 2008
Place: Liberator Simón Bolívar Room, OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
LA OEA APOYA AL GOBIERNO DE BOLIVIA Y LLAMA A LOS BOLIVIANOS A INICIAR UN DIÁLOGO QUE CULMINE EN UN ENTENDIMIENTO PACÍFICO
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza leads a high-level mission on a visit to Haiti

Date: April 24, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: OEA
Forum "Energy Security: How to strike a balance between Economy and Ecology"

Date: April 24, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza meets with Juan Carlos Auza, of the Ibero-American Organization of Social Security

Date: April 23, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
Guatemala’s new Permanent Representative to the OAS, Ambassador Jorge Skinner-Klee, presents credentials to Secretary General José Miguel Insulza

Date: April 23, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
Special Meeting of the OAS Permanent Council

Date: April 23, 2008
Place: Liberator Simón Bolívar Room, OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
Vidéo
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza chairs a meeting of the Group or Friends of Haiti

Date: April 22, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza welcomes members of the Panama-based Technical Secretariat of the Decade for the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disability  

Date: April 22, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza meets with colombian Senator Juan Manuel Galán Pachón  

Date: April 22, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
Secretary General José Miguel Insulza welcomes Peru’s Agriculture Minister Ismael Benavides Ferreyros to the OAS

Date: April 21, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin inaugurates joint ITU/CITEL Forum on "Enabling an ICT Business Environment in the Americas region"

Date: April 21, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
Meeting of the Working Group to Prepare the Draft American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Date: April 18, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza meets with the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa  

Date: April 18, 2008
Place: Ecuador - Quito
Photos: OAS-OEA
Communiqués de presse
Meeting of the Group of Friends of the Columbus Memorial Library and Ambassador Graeme Clark makes a presentation of books donated to the Library on behalf of the Government of Canada

Date: April 18, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
Professor James Anaya headlines OAS conference in the Lecture Series of the Americas

Date: April 18, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
Communiqués de presse | Vidéo
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza and the President of the Pan American Development Foundation Alexander Watson meet with the President of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe

Date: April 17, 2008
Place: Bogotá - Colombia
Photos: Jaime Serrano
OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin meets with the Professor James Anaya

Date: April 17, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin inaugurates the Forum on Migration Issues

Date: April 17, 2008
Place: Liberator Simón Bolívar Room, OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin visits the venue in Medellin, Colombia, where the next OAS General Assembly will be held, in June

Date: April 16, 2008
Place: Medellín, Colombia
Photos: OEA
Meeting of the Working Group to Prepare the Draft American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Date: April 15, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
Secretary General of the OAS, José Miguel Insulza, addresses the Third Forum on the Latin American Pacific Basin Initiative

Date: April 14, 2008
Place: Cancun, México
Photos: OEA
Regular Meeting of the Permanent Council

Date: April 14, 2008
Place: Liberator Simón Bolívar Room, OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin meets with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia, Dimitrij Rupel

Date: April 14, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
The OAS Permanent Council convenes a protocolary meeting to commemorate Pan American Day

Date: April 14, 2008
Place: Liberator Simón Bolívar Room, OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
Communiqués de presse | Vidéo
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza meets with the British Embassy Deputy Head of Mission Dominick Chilcott

Date: April 11, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert R. Ramdin meets with Assistant Secretary of State for Resource Management and Chief Financial Officer, Bradford Higgins

Date: April 11, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza speaks in a Public Briefing of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee of the Foreign Affairs Committee US House of Representatives

Date: April 10, 2008
Place: US House of Representatives - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza meets with members of the Joint Summit Working Group

Date: April 10, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin leads an OAS delegation to brief members of the US House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, concerning the situation in Haiti

Date: April 9, 2008
Place: US House of Representatives - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
Presentation at the OAS of Latinobarómetro's 2007 Report

Date: April 9, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
OAS and the Caribbean Community Climate Change Center sign a cooperation agreement, during a ceremony in Washington

Date: April 9, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
Secretary General José Miguel Insulza welcomes Manuel Espino Barrientos, President of the Organization of Christian Democrats of the Americas, to the OAS

Date: April 9, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago, Paula Gopee-Scoon, addresses a special session of the OAS Permanent Council

Date: April 9, 2008
Place: Liberator Simón Bolívar Room, OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza meets with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago, Paula Gopee-Scoon

Date: April 9, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert R. Ramdin meet with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Haiti Advisory Group

Date: April 8, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza meets with Chile’s National Defense Minister, José Goñi Carrasco  

Date: April 8, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza inaugurates exhibition of works by Ecuadorian painter Oswaldo Guayasamín

Date: April 4, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
El Secretario General de la OEA, José Miguel Insulza, se reunió con el máximo ejecutvo de Microsoft, Bill Gates, quien recibió un reconocimiento de parte de los beneficiados del programa POETA

Date: April 4, 2008
Place: Miami FL
Photos: OEA
Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin of the OAS addresses a meeting in Buenos Aires, organized by the Argentina-based Regional Coordinator for Economic and Social Research (CRIES)

Date: April 3, 2008
Place: Buenos Aires - Argentina
Photos: (CRIES)
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza in Trinidad and Tobago, where he participated in a regional conference on security

Date: April 2, 2008
Place: Trinidad y Tobago
Photos: OEA
Joint Meeting of the Permanent Council and the Permanent Executive Committee of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CEPCIDI)

Date: April 2, 2008
Place: Liberator Simón Bolívar Room, OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
New Mexico's Governor Bill Richardson headlines OAS conference in the Lecture Series of the Americas

Date: April 1, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza meets with the Governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson

Date: April 1, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
Regular Meeting of the Permanent Council  

Date: April 1, 2008
Place: Liberator Simón Bolívar Room, OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS Permanent Council welcomes the new Permanent Representative of Jamaica, Ambassador Anthony Johnson

Date: April 1, 2008
Place: Liberator Simón Bolívar Room, OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS Permanent Council welcomes the new Permanent Representative of the Unites States, Ambasssador Héctor Morales

Date: April 1, 2008
Place: Liberator Simón Bolívar Room, OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
Barbados' Permanent Representative to the OAS, Ambassador Michael I. King, assumes the chairmanship of the Permanent Council

Date: April 1, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva