AG/RES. 1512 (XXVII-O/97)
INTER-AMERICAN PROGRAM TO COMBAT POVERTY AND DISCRIMINATION
(Resolution adopted at the seventh plenary session, held on June 5, 1997)
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
HAVING SEEN:
Resolution AG/RES. 1424 (XXVI-O/96), "Inter-American Program for Overcoming
Poverty";
The Inter-American Program to Combat Poverty and Discrimination, approved by the Inter-
American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) at its Second Regular Meeting through
resolution CIDI/RES. 10 (II-O/97); and
The report of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) on the Inter-
American Program to Combat Poverty and Discrimination (CEPCIDI/doc.69/97 rev.),
RESOLVES:
- To adopt the Inter-American Program to Combat Poverty and Discrimination, approved by
the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) as part of the Strategic Plan
for Partnership for Development 1997-2001.
- To entrust CIDI with continuing to give high priority to partnership activities and
projects aimed at overcoming poverty and discrimination in the Hemisphere.
- To reiterate its request to the Secretary General that he submit to the Permanent
Executive Committee of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CEPCIDI) by
September 30, 1997, for its approval, the 1998 annual program of activities for the Unit
for Social Development and Education, and that he present quarterly progress reports on
said program.
- To entrust CIDI, through CEPCIDI, with supporting the execution of the Inter- American
Program to Combat Poverty and Discrimination with the collaboration of the General
Secretariat. To this end, the Executive Secretariat for Integral Development shall
coordinate the necessary support tasks with the relevant offices of the General
Secretariat and, in particular, with the Unit for Social Development and Education.
- To request CIDI to report on the implementation of this resolution to the General
Assembly at its twenty-eighth regular session.
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