AG/RES. 1482 (XXVII-O/97)
MEETING OF MINISTERS OF JUSTICE
(Resolution adopted at the seventh plenary session, held on June 5, 1997)
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
HAVING SEEN the report of the Permanent Council on enhancement of the administration of justice in the Americas (CP/doc.2919/97), presented pursuant to resolution AG/RES. 1392 (XXVI- O/96); and
CONSIDERING:
That the Declaration of Panama on the Inter-American Contribution to the Development and Codification of International Law [AG/DEC. 12 (XXVI-O/96)] notes that "it is necessary for member states to reaffirm their full support for the progressive development and codification of international law, for dissemination of information thereon in the framework of the Organization of American States, and for measures allowing greater inter-American legal cooperation"; and
That, to this end, it is essential that, at the highest level, a determination be made of the areas and the ways in which legal and judicial cooperation in the Hemisphere may best be strengthened,
RESOLVES: