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.
The General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) expresses its rejection of the uninformed comments of government spokespeople of the Russian Federation, who maliciously disqualify this Organization in order to justify the recent and illegal Russian military incursion into Venezuelan territory.
The General Secretariat wishes to recall that the OAS is a regional organization whose core competency is to ensure peace and security in the region. Established in 1948 as a continuation of a series of institutions and agreements both for the peaceful settlement of disputes and for collective self-defense against external interventions, the OAS has as its first purpose the strengthening of peace and security in the hemisphere (Article 2 of the OAS Charter).
Consistent with that purpose, the same Article 2 of the OAS Charter says the Organization must “achieve an effective limitation of conventional weapons” in the region, as well as “promote and consolidate representative democracy.” Article 23 of the Charter expressly provides that “measures adopted for the maintenance of peace and security in accordance with existing treaties do not constitute a violation of the principles set forth in Articles 19 and 21” (that refer to the principle of non-intervention). Therefore, to work to ensure peace and security, to strengthen peace, avoid an arms buildup, wherever it comes from, are essential purposes of the Organization, of which the General Secretariat is the central and permanent organ.
The General Secretariat therefore reiterates its unequivocal rejection of the presence of Russian military personnel and military transport in Venezuelan territory, for lacking the constitutionally required authorization of the National Assembly. These incursions constitute an act harmful to Venezuelan sovereignty and are an instrument of repressive intimidation for the democratic transition led by the interim President Juan Guaidó.
Along the same lines, the General Secretariat wishes to recall that, in accordance with the decisions of the OAS member states in resolutions of the General Assembly and the Permanent Council of the OAS, and the Venezuelan Constitution, the legitimate President of Venezuela is interim President Guaidó. On June 5, 2018, the member states, in a resolution of the OAS General Assembly, declared the openly fraudulent elections of May 2018 illegitimate and on January 10, 2019, in a resolution of the OAS Permanent Council, subsequently declared the government of the usurping dictator Nicolás Maduro illegitimate.
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