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 Secretary General Regrets Colombian Withdrawal from Pact of Bogotá
November 29, 2012
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States, José Miguel Insulza, deeply regretted the decision of the government of Colombia to withdraw from the Pact of Bogotá, one of the fundamental legal instruments of the hemispheric organization through which the signatories undertake to settle their disputes by peaceful means.
The Secretary General declined to comment on the reasons of the Colombian government for making its determination, saying that "the withdrawal from the Pact is an option for the countries that is referred to in its text."
However, he said that "one of the objectives that has guided my administration and underpins the actions of the organization is to ensure that all Member Countries are integrated into the foundational legal instruments on which the OAS bases its work." He complemented his statement by saying that "dialogue to peacefully resolve disputes between States is the cornerstone that we all must embrace as a unique tool in the solution of problems that may arise between the Member Countries of the OAS."
Insulza recalled that "the universal legal institutional framework, which contains large values of American law, has been built with multiple contributions from all countries in America, which have generated legal instruments of such importance as the Pact of Bogotá itself, and others linked to human rights and the right to asylum, among the most important."
In this context, the chief representative of the OAS called on the hemispheric community "to maintain confidence in the body of law that the American peoples themselves have built to live in peace with each other for nearly a century, after many conflicts that taught us the lesson that the only path to civilized coexistence lies in the law and the use of peaceful means."
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