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.
CHILE RATIFIES TREATY ON TRANSPARENCY IN ARMS ACQUISITIONS
January 31, 2005
Chile has become the eleventh country of the Organization of American States (OAS) to ratify the Inter-American Convention on Conventional Arms Acquisitions, a treaty that promotes confidence-building measures in the region.
In a brief ceremony held today at OAS headquarters, Chile’s Permanent Representative to the OAS, Ambassador Esteban Tomic, deposited the instrument of ratification with Secretary General José Miguel Insulza, saying that the treaty “without a doubt represents a substantial contribution of the OAS toward peace and security in the hemisphere.”
Ambassador Tomic highlighted the challenges still facing the treaty, pointing out that “we should work towards making it universal, considering that 20 OAS member states have signed it and only 10, now 11 with Chile, have ratified it.” Tomic called for the treaty’s full implementation and for preparations to begin for the First Conference of States Parties, scheduled to take place in 2009.
The Secretary General said that “the commitments acquired in the Convention constitute an important step toward achieving of one of the essential purposes established in the OAS Charter, that of reaching an effective limit on conventional weapons which would allow a greater number of resources to be dedicated to the economic and social development of member states.”
The treaty was adopted in Guatemala in 1999, and to date it has been ratified by: Argentina, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.
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