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.
VENEZUELA RATIFIES TREATY ON TRANSPARENCY IN CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS ACQUISITIONS
April 27, 2005
VENEZUELA RATIFIES TREATY
ON TRANSPARENCY IN CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS ACQUISITIONS
Venezuela today became the tenth country of the Organization of American States (OAS) to ratify the Inter-American Convention on Transparency in Conventional Weapons Acquisitions, an international treaty that promotes confidence-building measures among its member states.
Ambassador Nelson Pineda, Venezuela’s Alternate Representative to the OAS, formally deposited the ratification instruments with Brian Stevenson, who heads the OAS Executive Secretariat for Integral Development and who is in charge of the Organization while the Secretary General is traveling.
Pineda said that ratification of this treaty underscores his government’s commitment to advancing peaceful coexistence in the hemisphere. “Achieving a transparent process for acquiring the conventional weapons required by our governments, authorities, armed forces and police constitutes a very important element to guarantee this coexistence.”
Stevenson said that under the terms of the treaty, the states parties report annually on their imports and exports and also notify the OAS of their weapons acquisitions. “Sharing this type of information constitutes a very significant step in increasing transparency and mutual trust among our member states,” he said.
The other countries that have ratified the treaty, which was adopted in Guatemala City in 1999, are Argentina, Canada, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.