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.
BELIZE AND PARAGUAY ESTABLISH DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS,
WITH CEREMONY AT OAS AS BACKDROP
December 6, 2004
The governments of Belize and Paraguay have formally elevated their relations to full diplomatic status. The countries’ ambassadors to the Organization of American States today signed on behalf of their respective governments a joint communiqué to that effect.
Belize Ambassador Lisa Shoman and Paraguay’s Ambassador Luis Enrique Chase Plate signed at OAS headquarters the agreement in which the governments said they had decided to establish diplomatic relations, effective last November 8, based on their “mutual desire to develop friendly relations and cooperation in political, economic, cultural, humanitarian and other fields.”
In the joint communiqué, the governments went on to stress their firm belief that “the establishment of diplomatic relations corresponds to the interests of both states and will strengthen international peace and security.” Belize and Paraguay have also agreed that their diplomatic relations will be founded on the principles and the norms of the United Nations Charter and the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
After the signing the Belizean envoy, who is also Ambassador to the United States, remarked that Paraguay and Belize are similarly situated in many respects and face many similar challenges as small countries. “We believe the type of relationship that we are starting with Paraguay will yield many fruits, not only in terms of cooperation but also in terms of problem-solving, best practices and—more importantly than anything else—good understanding between our two countries,” Ambassador Shoman declared, commending Paraguay’s initiative in approaching her government to establish full diplomatic relations.
Reiterating the importance his government attaches to this new relationship with Belize, Ambassador Chase Plate in one of his final official duties as Paraguay’s envoy to the OAS, cited the significant bonds both governments have developed within the context of the OAS bloc, among others. “Belize is specially-situated,” he said, “as a member of the Central American Group and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).” He also noted the excellent relations Belize enjoys with South America (through the ALADI group), and pointed to Paraguay’s plans to immediately embark on a series of concrete initiatives with Belize.
Both diplomats indicated their governments would shortly exchange ambassadors.
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