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The Inspector General provides the Secretary General with reports on the audits, investigations, and inspections conducted. These reports are made available to the Permanent Council. More information may be found here.
The OAS has discussed for several years the real estate issue, the funding required for maintenance and repairs, as well as the deferred maintenance of its historic buildings. The General Secretariat has provided a series of options for funding it. The most recent document, reflecting the current status of the Strategy, is CP/CAAP-3211/13 rev. 4.
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Every year the GS/OAS publishes the annual operating plans for all areas of the Organization, used to aid in the formulation of the annual budget and as a way to provide follow-up on institutional mandates.
Here you will find information related to the OAS Strategic Plan 2016-2020, including its design, preparation and approval.
OAS Permanent Council Commemorated Centenary of the Passing of Rubén Darío
February 3, 2016
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The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) today commemorated the centenary of the passing of Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío, by holding a special meeting and laying a wreath at the foot of the writer’s bust in the OAS headquarters in Washington, D.C.
The OAS Secretary General, Luis Almagro, described Darío as an “example of the cultural heritage, in the broadest meaning of the word,” and he underscored the projection of his universally-recognized work “that still affects the social and political context.”
Ambassador Jesús Sierra Victoria, Vice Chair of the Permanent Council and Permanent Representative of Panama to the OAS, who chaired the meeting, indicated that “the immortality of Rubén Darío was already sealed by the product of his pen.”
The Permanent Representative of Nicaragua, Ambassador Denis Moncada, summarized the role of his fellow countryman as “the precursor and father of modernism that characterizes Latin American and Caribbean ability and literary genius.”