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.
Statement from the OAS General Secretariat on Events in Ecuador
April 6, 2024
The General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) recalls that the nations of the Americas have reaffirmed in the OAS Charter that “International law is the standard of conduct of States in their reciprocal relations” and, in that sense, strict compliance is essential by all States with the rules that regulate the protection, respect and inviolability of the premises of diplomatic missions and consular offices, which have been codified in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, of April 18, 1961, in particular the provisions of its article 22, and the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, of April 24, 1963, in particular the provisions of its article 31.
In the duty to maintain coherence with the history of the Organization's international positioning, and reiterating the content of previous pronouncements, the OAS General Secretariat reiterates the full validity of the principles and norms that regulate diplomatic relations between States, and in particular those referring to full respect for the inviolability of the premises of diplomatic missions and consular offices. At the same time, it reaffirms that these principles and norms constitute fundamental rules to ensure peaceful coexistence between all the countries that make up the international community.
Therefore, the General Secretariat rejects any action that violates or puts at risk the inviolability of the premises of diplomatic missions and reiterates the obligation that all States have not to invoke norms of domestic law to justify non-compliance with their international obligations. In this context, it expresses solidarity with those who were victims of the inappropriate actions that affected the Mexican Embassy in Ecuador. The OAS was also recently the victim of a similar attack in Managua and neither in that case nor in this one are ambiguities admissible, but rather the fullest coherence with international law.
In this framework, the OAS General Secretariat calls for dialogue between the parties to resolve their differences, deeming a meeting of the OAS Permanent Council necessary to address the issue and based on the principles enshrined in international law, such as respect for sovereignty, the peaceful resolution of disputes, the peaceful coexistence of States, the renunciation of resorting to the threat or use of force to resolve conflicts and the faithful and strict compliance with international treaties, including those that guarantee the right of asylum.
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