AG/RES. 1311 (XXV-O/95)

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INTER-AMERICAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL (CIES)

(Resolution adopted at the sixth plenary session, held on June 7, 1995)

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

HAVING SEEN the observations and recommendations of the Permanent Council concerning the Annual Report of the Inter-American Economic and Social Council (CIES) (AG/doc.3211/95);

CONSIDERING that CIES held its XXIX Annual Meeting on March 20 and 21, 1995, and was consequently unable to submit its annual report by the deadline laid down in Article 34 of the Rules of Procedure of the Permanent Council; and

TAKING NOTE:

That the VIII Joint Meeting of the Inter-American Economic and Social Council (CIES) and the Inter-American Council for Education, Science, and Culture (CIECC) on Policy, Programming, and Coordination for the Caribbean Subregion took place in Belize City, from March 1 to 3, 1995, in compliance with resolutions AG/RES. 1277 (XXIV-O/94) and CIES/RES. 469 (XXVII-O/93); and

That, pursuant to resolution AG/RES. 1260 (XXIV-O/94), "Participation of CIES and CIECC in the Transition Stage to the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI)," CIES and CIECC set up a joint working group to study and recommend the measures required in both Councils during the transition to CIDI,

RESOLVES:

  1. To take note of the Annual Report of the Inter-American Economic and Social Council (CIES).

  2. To congratulate CIES for the programs and projects it carried out in the period covered by its annual report.

  3. To recognize that promotion of cooperation and social and economic development is one of the fundamental objectives of the Organization and that CIES has contributed to attaining it.

  4. To urge CIES to work wholeheartedly with CIECC to facilitate the transition to the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) and implementation on January 1, 1996, of the Partnership for Development System.

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