AG/RES. 1495 (XXVII-O/97)
SECOND REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONFIDENCE- AND
SECURITY-BUILDING MEASURES
(Resolution adopted at the seventh plenary session, held on June 5, 1997)
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
HAVING SEEN the report of the Permanent Council on hemispheric security (AG/doc.3517/97);
RECALLING that the Declaration of Santiago on Confidence- and Security-Building Measures states that "the strengthening of bilateral and multilateral dialogue facilitates mutual understanding and increased collaboration in the face of the challenges of the next century. Confidence- and security- building measures in the Americas are especially significant for building ties of friendship and cooperation";
TAKING INTO ACCOUNT:
That the strengthening of peace and security in the Hemisphere is one of the essential purposes of the Organization of American States, and that economic and social development and cooperation among the member states are vital to that goal;
That it is necessary and appropriate to pursue and intensify dialogue to strengthen peace, confidence, and security in the region;
TAKING NOTE of resolutions AG/RES. 1237 (XXIII-O/93), "Meeting of Experts on Confidence- and Security-Building Measures in the Region," AG/RES. 1284 (XXIV-O/94), "Information on Military Expenditures and Register of Conventional Arms," AG/RES. 1288 (XXIV- O/94), "Confidence- and Security-Building Measures in the Region," and AG/RES. 1409 (XXVI- O/96), "Confidence- and Security-Building Measures"; and
CONSIDERING that the General Assembly, through resolution AG/RES. 1412 (XXVI-O/96), convened a regional conference to follow up on the Santiago Regional Conference on Confidence- and Security-Building Measures,
RESOLVES: