Each year the OAS Secretary General publishes a proposed Program-Budget for the coming calendar year. The OAS General Assembly meets in a Special Session to approve the Program-Budget. Find these documents from 1998-2013 here.
Each year in April, the OAS Board of External Auditors publishes a report covering the previous calendar year’s financial results. Reports covering 1996-2016 may be found here.
Approximately six weeks after the end of each semester, the OAS publishes a Semiannual Management and Performance Report, which since 2013 includes reporting on programmatic results. The full texts may be found here.
Here you will find data on the Human Resources of the OAS, including its organizational structure, each organizational unit’s staffing, vacant posts, and performance contracts.
The OAS executes a variety of projects funded by donors. Evaluation reports are commissioned by donors. Reports of these evaluations may be found here.
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.
Here you will find information related to the GS/OAS Procurement Operations, including a list of procurement notices for formal bids, links to the performance contract and travel control measure reports, the applicable procurement rules and regulations, and the training and qualifications of its staff.
The OAS Treasurer certifies the financial statements of all funds managed or administered by the GS/OAS. Here you will find the latest general purpose financial reports for the main OAS funds, as well as OAS Quarterly Financial Reports (QFRs).
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.
Message from Secretary General on Preliminary Opinion of the Venice Commission on Venezuela
July 21, 2017
On June 26, 2017 I requested of the European Commission for Democracy through Law, also known as the Venice Commission, an opinion on the legality of the Presidential decree through which elections for a Constituent Assembly in Venezuela were convened.
Today I received the preliminary opinion from the diverse group made up of recognized independent experts in constitutional and electoral issues from Spain, the Czech Republic, Finland, Peru and Mexico.
Following an exhaustive legal analysis, the Venice Commission arrived at the following conclusions:
Only the Venezuelan people have the power to convene elections for the National Constituent Assembly through referenda. That is to say, the Executive branch does not have this power.
It also concluded that the regulation of a Constituent Assembly lies exclusively within the power of the National Assembly.
Moreover, it indicated that the voting basis to determine representation by territory and sectoral representation violate democratic principles.
Finally, it mentions that the deficiencies of this procedure and of the voting basis weaken the credibility of the process.
Every day there are more voices in the international community that call for the return of democracy to Venezuela.
This will only happen when the people can express themselves through free, universal, clean general elections with international observation.
That is the only way to leave behind the current political, socio-economic and humanitarian crisis that is sweeping the country.
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