Each year the OAS Secretary General publishes a proposed Program-Budget for the coming calendar year. The OAS General Assembly meets in a Special Session to approve the Program-Budget. Find these documents from 1998-2013 here.
Each year in April, the OAS Board of External Auditors publishes a report covering the previous calendar year’s financial results. Reports covering 1996-2016 may be found here.
Approximately six weeks after the end of each semester, the OAS publishes a Semiannual Management and Performance Report, which since 2013 includes reporting on programmatic results. The full texts may be found here.
Here you will find data on the Human Resources of the OAS, including its organizational structure, each organizational unit’s staffing, vacant posts, and performance contracts.
The OAS executes a variety of projects funded by donors. Evaluation reports are commissioned by donors. Reports of these evaluations may be found here.
The Inspector General provides the Secretary General with reports on the audits, investigations, and inspections conducted. These reports are made available to the Permanent Council. More information may be found here.
The OAS has discussed for several years the real estate issue, the funding required for maintenance and repairs, as well as the deferred maintenance of its historic buildings. The General Secretariat has provided a series of options for funding it. The most recent document, reflecting the current status of the Strategy, is CP/CAAP-3211/13 rev. 4.
Here you will find information related to the GS/OAS Procurement Operations, including a list of procurement notices for formal bids, links to the performance contract and travel control measure reports, the applicable procurement rules and regulations, and the training and qualifications of its staff.
The OAS Treasurer certifies the financial statements of all funds managed or administered by the GS/OAS. Here you will find the latest general purpose financial reports for the main OAS funds, as well as OAS Quarterly Financial Reports (QFRs).
Every year the GS/OAS publishes the annual operating plans for all areas of the Organization, used to aid in the formulation of the annual budget and as a way to provide follow-up on institutional mandates.
Here you will find information related to the OAS Strategic Plan 2016-2020, including its design, preparation and approval.
THREATENING TO USE NUCLEAR WEAPONS VIOLATES
INTERNATIONAL LAW, OAS MEETING IS TOLD
January 28, 2003
Using or threatening to use nuclear weapons is a violation of a fundamental principle of international law, according to the Director General of the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL), Ambassador Edmundo Vargas Carreño.
Addressing Tuesday’s meeting of the Organization of American States’ (OAS) Committee on Hemispheric Security—chaired by Mexico’s Ambassador Miguel Ruiz-Cabañas—the Chilean diplomat said “nuclear powers have undertaken to respect this region as a nuclear-free zone.” He described the Tlatelolco Treaty and OPANAL as “one of our region’s greatest contributions to international and regional peace and security.”
Ambassador Vargas Carreño presented a set of recommendations that will go to the Special Conference on Hemispheric Security, slated for Mexico in May, noting that when Cuba deposited the last instrument of ratification, “the nuclear disarmament regime governing the vast area covered under the Treaty of Tlatelolco took full effect.”
Thirty-three states of Latin America and the Caribbean have thus far achieved a total ban on nuclear weapons from a zone of more than 500 million inhabitants of a 93.6 million square-kilometer area.
Reiterating concern over potential risks associated with transporting radioactive material and toxic wastes near member countries’ coasts or sea-lanes, the OPANAL Director General urged countries to strengthen international regulations on security measures and applicable responsibility for such shipments.
Several of the OAS member state delegations commended the OPANAL official for the presentation and expressed support for his proposals, which will be considered at the upcoming Special Conference on Security in Mexico.
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