AG/RES. 1446 (XXVII-O/97)
ORGANIZATION OF THE WORK PERFORMED BY THE
SUBSIDIARY ORGANS OF THE OAS COUNCILS
(Resolution adopted at the fifth plenary session, held on June 4, 1997)
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
HAVING SEEN the report of the Permanent Council on the organization of the work
performed by the subsidiary organs of the OAS councils (AG/doc.3509/97);
CONSIDERING the growing number and broader scope of the Organization's mandates and the
importance of ensuring complete and effective compliance therewith;
BEARING IN MIND:
The marked increase in meetings held by different subsidiary organs of the
Organization's councils, resulting from the above-mentioned mandates, and the need for
adequate preparation of these meetings; and
The limited physical, financial, and human resources of the Organization and the
secretariats of the councils, particularly the Secretariat of Conferences and Meetings;
and
CONVINCED of the need to make more efficient and effective use of those limited
resources,
RESOLVES:
- To instruct the Permanent Council to urgently study, through its Committee on Meetings
and Organizations (CRO), the organization of the work performed by the subsidiary organs
of the Organization's councils and to seek ways to streamline their efforts, so they may
more efficiently and effectively carry out the mandates conferred on them.
- To empower the Permanent Council and the Inter-American Council for Integral
Development (CIDI) to adopt, through its Permanent Executive Committee (CEPCIDI)on
the basis of recommendations by the CRO and preferably before the end of September
1997organizational and/or structural measures deemed relevant for achieving the
objectives of this resolution, including the adoption ad referendum of decisions
requiring the authorization of the General Assembly.
- To request CEPCIDI to cooperate fully with the CRO in conducting the aforementioned
study and to take into account its recommendations in drafting the rules of procedure for
CIDI's subsidiary organs.
- To urge the General Secretariat to lend the greatest support possible to the work of
the CRO in complying with this resolution, including the drafting of proposals or relevant
documents, and to put into practice immediately the decisions duly made by the councils
with a view to streamlining the work of their subsidiary organs.
- To instruct the councils to report on compliance with this resolution to the General
Assembly at its twenty-eighth regular session.
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