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Last Updated: Feb 6, 2017 - 2:32:04 PM |
Change of Chair of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI)
From left to right:
Diego Pary, Chair of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) and Permanent Representative of Bolivia to the OAS
Nestor Mendez, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Belize to the OAS
José Miguel Insulza, OAS Secretary General
Albert R. Ramdin, OAS Assistant Secretary General
Date: January 13, 2014.
Place: Washington, DC.
Credit: Juan Manuel Herrera/OAS
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Permanent Representative of Bolivia to the Organization of American
States (OAS), Ambassador Diego Pary, today assumed the Chair of the
Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) of the
institution, at a ceremony in which he stressed the importance of
building collective alliances to advance on the issue of development in
the region. Participants in the handover ceremony, held at the
headquarters of the hemispheric Organization in Washington, DC, included
the Secretary General of the OAS, José Miguel Insulza, the Assistant
Secretary General, Albert Ramdin, the Executive Secretary for Integral
Development, Sherry Tross, and Permanent Representatives of the member
states.
The leadership of the Council was transferred from the Permanent
Representative of Belize, Ambassador Nestor Mendez, whose work in the
last six months was recognized by Ambassador Pary. The Bolivian diplomat
explained the vision of his government that "democracy is deepened when
integral development is an essential element in the design of public
policies, and therefore we will translate that vision into the
multilateral work we do at this Organization."
Ambassador Pary said that the Social Charter of the Americas,
adopted at the OAS General Assembly held in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in June
2012, "should become the main instrument of our work, since it contains
the foundation for the work to be carried out by CIDI." "We all know
that we still face many challenges and that due to the breadth and
complexity of the area of integral development there are issues that are
not being discussed. However, we have made significant progress in the
areas of water resources, education and teacher training, youth
employment, tourism, culture and migration, among others, which we will
continue to pursue so that they continue with the same dynamic they have
had to date," added the Permanent Representative of Bolivia, who
encouraged the broad participation of delegates from member states in
the discussions of the Council that he will preside over the next
semester.
Ambassador Mendez, meanwhile, discussed the role of the CIDI and
noted that the OAS Charter "allocates the same level of profile to the
Permanent Council as it does to the CIDI, but unfortunately, in recent
years the latter has not received the level of prominence it deserves,
and that is why we have worked for it to acquire that prominence through
a most remarkable and substantial agenda." "Today we are all convinced
of the importance of the development agenda in the OAS, which we do not
consider a pillar, but a cross-cutting issue that covers all topics of
the Organization. Unless we are able to provide development to our
people, all the efforts done in human rights, democracy and security are
in jeopardy," he said.
The CIDI
reports directly to the General Assembly and is intended to promote
cooperation among member states for the furtherance of their integral
development and, in particular, to help eliminate extreme poverty. The
Council is composed of all member states who meet in regular,
extraordinary, specialized and/or sectoral meetings.
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