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OEA/Ser.G
CP/RES. 796 (1293/01)
19 September 2001
Original: Spanish/English |
CP/RES. 796 (1293/01)
CONVOCATION OF THE TWENTY-THIRD MEETING OF CONSULTATION
OF MINISTERS OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
THE PERMANENT COUNCIL OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES,
CONCERNED by the terrorist attacks perpetrated against innocent civilians from
many nations that took place on September 11, 2001 in the territory of the
United States of America;
RECOGNIZING
the statement approved on September 11, 2001 by the twenty-eighth special
session of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States, held in
Lima, Peru, which condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist acts visited
upon several cities, and reiterated the need to strengthen hemispheric
cooperation to combat this scourge;
CONSIDERING
the statement of the Secretary General of the OAS on September 11, in which he
condemned the cowardly acts of terrorism perpetrated on the United States of
America and stressed that these actions are an attack not only on the United
States but also on all the democratic and free states of the world;
RECALLING the
inherent right of the United States and each of the other Member States to act
in the exercise of the right of individual and collective self-defense
recognized by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations;
AWARE that
Article 2 of the OAS Charter proclaims that one of the essential purposes of
the Organization is to provide for common action on the part of those States in
the event of aggression;
CONSIDERING
that the conduct of terrorist acts, as well as the direct and indirect support
for such acts, is not compatible with the effective exercise of representative
democracy, and that representative democracy is indispensable for the
stability, peace, and development of the Americas;
CONVINCED
that the perpetrators of these terrorist acts rely upon an international
support network that may have branches within our own Hemisphere, and those
that aid, abet or harbor terrorist organizations are responsible for the acts
of those terrorists; and
CONSIDERING
the report of the Government of the United States of America that was provided
to the Permanent Council on this date,
RESOLVES:
1. To condemn, as an attack against all the States of
the Americas, the acts of terrorism perpetrated within the territory of the
United States of America on September 11, 2001, that resulted in the murder of
thousands of citizens from many Member States and other nations.
2. To repudiate these acts of terrorism as an affront
to human dignity and the rule of law and as a danger to the peace and security
of the Americas, and to express the conviction that this threat against
democracy requires united and concerted action to protect and defend the free
exercise of democracy.
3. To reaffirm our solidarity with the people and
government of the United States of America in the rescue and reconstruction
efforts.
4. To call upon the government of the Member States and
all other governments to use all necessary and available means to pursue,
capture, and punish those responsible for these attacks, and to prevent
additional attacks.
5. To urge all Member States to support international
efforts to bring those responsible for these terrorist attacks to justice and
to promote inter-American cooperation, especially through information sharing,
for that purpose.
6. To convene on September 21, 2001, at the
headquarters of the Organization of American States, a Meeting of Consultation
of Ministers of Foreign Affairs, pursuant to articles 61 to 65 of the OAS
Charter, to consider the threat to hemispheric security posed by international
terrorism.
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