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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM |
The member states of the Organization of American States (OAS) will elect its next Secretary General on
March 18, 2015, as determined today by the Permanent Council in a special meeting at
the headquarters of the hemispheric institution in Washington, DC.
The election will take place at a Special General Assembly, which will
be formally convened shortly. The current Secretary General, José Miguel
Insulza, who took office in May 2005, ends his term officially on
25 May 2015. According to the OAS Charter, the
Secretary General “shall be elected by the General Assembly for a five-year term and may not be reelected more than once.”
The Permanent Council also determined that a month before the Assembly, on
February 18, the candidates for Secretary General will convene to present their ideas to the Permanent Representatives.
During the meeting, the delegations of Venezuela, Guatemala, Dominica,
Mexico, Costa Rica, Chile, Trinidad and Tobago and El Salvador took the
floor.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at
www.oas.org.
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