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52nd OAS General Assembly Concluded

  October 9, 2022

The Organization of American States (OAS) today concluded its 52nd General Assembly, held this week in Lima, Peru.

In the last plenary session, the Assembly approved the Declaration of Lima "Together against inequality and discrimination," as well as resolutions on the situation in Nicaragua and Haiti, hemispheric initiatives to promote resilience in terms of comprehensive development, recovery and strengthening of inclusive and resilient health systems, the situation of food and nutritional security in the Americas, a resolution to increase and strengthen the participation of civil society and social actors in the activities of the OAS and in the process of Summits of the Americas, the priority role of the OAS in the development of telecommunications/information and communication technologies through the Inter-American Telecommunications Commission (CITEL), a declaration on the Peace Process in Colombia and a declaration of solidarity with the Argentine people in view of the assassination attempt suffered by the Vice President of the Argentine Republic.

All documents approved by the General Assembly are or will be available here.

In a vote held in person in Lima, Peru, within the framework of the same Assembly, the Member States elected Alejandro Alday González (Mexico), Julio José Rojas (Dominican Republic), and George Rodrigo Bandeira (Brazil) to the Inter-American Juridical Committee.

The member states also elected Nicolas Soler (Argentina) and Cecilia Barrios (Guatemala) to the Justice Studies Center of the Americas, María Cecilia Cáceres (Chile) to the OAS Administrative Tribunal, and Martin Rubenstein (Canada) to the Committee on Organization Audit.

Reference: E-060/22