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Regular Session of the Permanent Council, January 16, 2013
Date: January 16, 2013
Place: Washington, DC
Credit: Maria Patricia Leiva/OAS
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The
Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) today
approved in its regular meeting the inclusion of 14 new civil society
organizations in its official registry in accordance with the provisions
of the "Guidelines for the Participation of Civil Society Organizations
in OAS Activities.”
Following the presentation by the delegation of Colombia, that
currently leads the Committee on Inter-American Summits Management and
Civil Society Participation in OAS Activities, the inclusion of the
following organizations was approved: Disabled Peoples International
North America and the Caribbean (DPI NAC) (Antigua and Barbuda),
Instituto de Estudios Internacionales (IDEI) (Bolivia), Associação
ARTIGO 19 (Brazil), el Instituto de Estudos da Religião (Brazil), Égale
Canada, Asociación de Mujeres Afrocolombianas (AMUAFROC), Colombia
Diversa, Corporación Alegría (CORPOALEGRÍA) (Colombia), Fundación Arco
Iris Siglo XXI (FUNDARIS) (Colombia), Fundación Capacitación y Asesorías
Integrales (FUNCAI) (Colombia), Instituto de Protección Social (IPS)
(Guatemala), Asociación para una Sociedad más Justa (ASJ) (Honduras),
Instituto de Defensa Legal (Peru), and the International Road Transport
Union (IRU) (Switzerland). The Council also approved the removal of
seven non-governmental organizations that have ceased to operate.
During the session, a draft schedule of meetings was presented
for the third and fourth stages of the work plan that the Council will
follow to continue in the dialogue on the strengthening and "follow-up
on the recommendations of the Report of the Special Working Group for
Reflection on the Functioning of the Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights (IACHR).” The calendar proposed
by the Chair of the Council considers the steps to be taken during the
next trimester in terms of work methodology, documents to serve as a
basis for discussion, procedures to address the reforms proposed by the
IACHR and the decision to extend the participation of civil society in
the process.
The first point on the calendar is an informal meeting to be
held on Friday, January 18, in which Member States will seek to decide
the above-mentioned issues, as well as setting a date for the Special
Meeting of the General Assembly that will consider the recommendations.
The proposed calendar will also be discussed at that meeting.
Council members, gathered at the OAS headquarters, also approved
the election of Dr. Carlos Polit Faggioni, of Ecuador, as a member of
the Board of External Auditors. Dr. Polit Faggioni, who was chosen to
complete the term of Dr. Wilson Vallejo Bazante, also a citizen of
Ecuador, will participate in the Board until December 31, 2015.
On another point on the agenda, at the request of the Permanent
Mission of the Dominican Republic, the Council commemorated the
bicentenary of the birth of Juan Pablo Duarte, one of the founding
fathers of the country. In this regard, the Ambassador of the Dominican
Republic, Robert Saladin, highlighted the work and legacy of Duarte and
recalled that his government decreed that in 2013 it will celebrate the
bicentenary of the birth of the hero of independence of the Dominican
Republic.
In addition, the Permanent Council offered a farewell to Dr.
Mirta Roses upon her departure as Director of the Pan American Health
Organization (PAHO), after completing her second term as head of the
institution of the Inter-American System. In her farewell, Dr. Roses
reviewed the progress made by the Pan American arm of the World Health
Organization and noted in particular the " very fruitful work and
constant collaboration with the OAS," while she was in the office. For
his part, the Secretary General of the OAS, José Miguel Insulza, praised
the successes of the PAHO, and noted that "the 10 years of Mirta Roses
are a clear testimony of her vocation for teamwork." The Permanent
Representatives of Argentina, Honduras, Bolivia, the United States, the
Dominican Republic, Mexico, Canada, Peru, Dominica, Uruguay, Barbados,
Nicaragua, Colombia, Paraguay, Panama and the Permanent Observer of
Spain (on behalf of France and Italy), congratulated Dr. Roses for her
work at the organization and wished her success in the future.
At the end of the meeting, on other business, the Permanent
Representative of Panama, Ambassador Guillermo Cochez, requested the
floor to present his point of view on the current situation in the
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. His approach was answered by the
Permanent Representative of Venezuela, Ambassador Roy Chaderton, who
rejected the expressions of the Panamanian diplomat saying that they
constitute an intervention in the internal affairs of Venezuela. On this
point in the agenda, the Permanent Representatives of Guatemala, the
United States, Canada, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and
Argentina took the floor and agreed that the Venezuelan situation must
be resolved internally by Venezuelans.
Today’s regular meeting was the first one in which the permanent
representative of Nicaragua occupied the rotating chairmanship of the
Council. Ambassador Denis Moncada received the gavel this week from
Ambassador Joel Hernández, Permanent Representative of Mexico.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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