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.
OAS PERMANENT COUNCIL CONDEMNS ACTS OF TERRORISM AND URGES COUNTRIES TO PUNISH PERPETRATORS
May 28, 2007
During a special meeting today, the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) adopted a Declaration on Strengthening Cooperation in the Fight against Terrorism and the Impunity of its Perpetrators, in response to a proposal initially presented by the government of Venezuela.
In today’s session, the President of the Permanent Council, Venezuelan Ambassador Jorge Valero, expressed appreciation for the good offices of OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza and the Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic, Roberto Alvarez, for bringing about a complete consensus in the formulation and approval of the Declaration.
In the text that was adopted, the Permanent Council expresses its “vehement condemnation of terrorism, in all its forms and manifestations, regardless of its origin or motivation, as criminal and unjustifiable, as a grave threat to international peace and security, and because it undermines efforts under way to promote stability, prosperity, and equity in the countries of the Hemisphere.”
It also urges “all member states to prosecute and, as appropriate, extradite, in accordance with their domestic laws and relevant treaties and conventions, anyone participating in the planning, preparation, commission, or financing of terrorist acts or, where appropriate, the attempted commission of said offenses.”
The Declaration establishes that “it is an inescapable duty of all countries of the Hemisphere to prevent, fight, and eliminate acts of terrorism and to prosecute, in accordance with their domestic law and international law, any person who has participated in the planning, preparation, financing, or commission of terrorist acts, and to cooperate, in accordance with their domestic law, so that member states may also bring to justice those responsible for acts of terrorism committed in their territories or against their citizens.”
The issue of terrorism was raised by the Venezuelan Mission to the OAS during a regular session of the Permanent Council last week, with no agreement having been reached on a pronouncement. Over the weekend, representatives of Venezuela and the United States conducted intense negotiations that—with the help of the Secretary General and the Dominican Ambassador—resulted in the document approved this morning, to applause, during a brief meeting of the Permanent Council. The session took place on Memorial Day, on which the United States honors the memory of those who have fought and died in wars.
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