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Secretary General Insulza Congratulates New Prime Minister of Haiti, Laurent Lamothe - May 18, 2012 - 11:04:25 AM
 The
Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José
Miguel Insulza, congratulated the new Prime Minister of the Republic of
Haiti, Laurent Lamothe, for his recent appointment and stressed his
commitment to the principles and core values of the hemispheric
organization.
"I've taken note of your statements on general
policy that emphasize the importance of good governance, strengthening
democracy, eliminating extreme poverty, respecting human rights and
modernizing the state in order to achieve strong institutions,"
Secretary General Insulza wrote in a letter sent to Prime Minister
Lamothe...
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OAS Assistant Secretary General Meets with Young Haitian Business Leaders - May 7, 2012 - 5:12:54 PM
A
delegation of young Haitian businessmen traveled to Washington, DC this
week to meet with OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin. The
delegation included investors in the tourism, manufacturing and
transportation sectors.
The Assistant Secretary General and the
young business leaders discussed the changes currently taking place in
Haiti and the impact of these changes on the business environment. The
Haitian delegation also spoke of the need for more business partnerships
in the region...
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Top Business Interests from Central America and Caribbean Gather in OAS/Trinidad and Tobago Hosted Meeting - May 17, 2012 - 5:01:29 PM
More
than sixty business leaders from Central America and the Caribbean met
this week in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago to discuss new
opportunities for partnerships and expanding business between the two
regions, as well as challenges to trade.
Taking part in the
closed door meetings were representatives of top conglomerates, public
and private companies, business families, and government representatives
and ministers, including Alberto Alemán Zubieta, CEO of the Panama
Canal Authority, Representatives of the Ansa McAl Group, Neal and Massy
Holdings, Guardian Holdings, Demerara Distillers, Grupo Unicomer,
Cabcorp and Bridgestone, as well as regional airlines, manufacturers,
producers associations and banks...
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OAS Secretary General Condemns Murder of Honduran Journalist Ángel Alfredo Villatoro - May 17, 2012 - 10:40:43 AM
The Secretary General
of the Organization of American States, José Miguel Insulza, expressed
his “most forceful condemnation” of the murder of journalist Ángel
Alfredo Villatoro, whose body was found this morning in Tegucigalpa,
Honduras, and warned that “this crime isn’t just an attack on the press;
it’s an attack on Honduran democracy.”
The chief representative of the
hemispheric organization condemned the violence that is carried out
against those who keep the public informed, called on authorities to
clarify “this brutal crime that casts a shadow once again over
journalism in the Central American country,” and urged Honduran society
to “strengthen the judicial system,” declaring that “the murder of
journalists affects the whole of society...
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President of Guyana Calls for Fight against Poverty in Visit to OAS - May 17, 2012 - 10:04:28 AM
The President of
Guyana, Donald Ramotar, today called on governments to do more to
"reduce poverty and inequality," because they pose "the greatest threat
to democracy and security" in the region, and "can only be addressed
through hemispheric cooperation,” during an address to the Permanent
Council of the Organization of American States (OAS).
In a protocolary session of the
council at OAS headquarters in Washington, DC, President Ramotar said,
“for Guyana, no priority is greater than to combat poverty, extreme
poverty, inequality and social exclusion through policies that promote
economic growth, access to education, health care and housing in order
to better achieve sustainable development with social justice...
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OAS Permanent Council Refers Draft Social Charter of the Americas to the General Assembly of Cochabamba - May 16, 2012 - 10:47:37 PM
The
Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the
Permanent Executive Committee of the Inter-American Council for Integral
Development (CEPCIDI) today held a joint meeting that approved the
referral to the General Assembly of the Social Charter of the Americas
and the development of an action plan for its implementation.
Daniel
Cerno, Alternate United States Representative to the OAS and Chair of
the Working Group on the Draft Social Charter of the Americas, presented
the text of the resolution, which highlights "the effort and commitment
of all Member States to promote and protect all the human rights of the
people of the Americas...
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OAS Highlights Work to Promote Sustainable Development and Citizen Security - May 15, 2012 - 7:23:51 PM
The
Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the
Permanent Executive Committee of the Inter-American Council for Integral
Development (CEPCIDI) today held a joint session focused on the
organization’s work toward “concrete effective and sustainable results”
in human development and citizen security in the region.
The OAS
Executive Secretary for Integral Development, Jorge Saggiante, and the
OAS Secretary for Multidimensional Security, Adam Blackwell, pointed to
the interdependence between development and security, emphasizing the
joint work they’ve done on the issue. The two Secretariats “have worked
together to guarantee the empowerment of youth as a central element of
strategies of violence...
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(Video) OAS Secretary General Opens Meeting of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission - May 10, 2012 - 10:23:51 PM
The Secretary General
of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, today
opened the 51st Regular Session of the Inter-American Drug Abuse
Control Commission (CICAD), emphasizing that “we can only fight this
problem effectively by working together with a common strategy.” Insulza
recalled that last month “the Presidents and heads of government of our
Member States, meeting at the Sixth Summit of the Americas, entrusted
to the OAS the job of producing a report that analyzes the results of
the current policies on drugs and explores new focal points to make them
more effective” and pointed out that the mandate that emerged from the
Summit “does not ask us for decisions or unique proposals: it asks us to
lay out options to strengthen policies...
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OAS and CICAD to take a hard look at the current status of drug trafficking in the Americas - May 8, 2012 - 3:12:10 PM
The
Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) of the
Organization of American States (OAS) will take a hard look at the
current status of drug trafficking in the Americas and its impact on
regional security at its 51st regular session, to be held in Washington,
DC, May 9-11.
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza will
deliver the opening remarks of the meeting, informing the commissioners
about the mandate given by the heads of state at the recent Summit of
the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia to prepare a report on the results
of the existing drug policies in the hemisphere and the options for the
future.
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OAS Electoral Observation Mission to the Bahamas Preliminary Statement - May 8, 2012 - 3:09:32 PM
At
the invitation of the Government of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas,
the Organization of American States (OAS) deployed an Electoral
Observation Mission (EOM), composed of 12 international observers. This
was the first time that the OAS had been invited to observe General
Elections in The Bahamas. The OAS/EOM monitored the process in 30
Constituencies and Observers were also present in the country several
days before the election.
The OAS would like to congratulate the
people of The Bahamas for the peaceful manner in which they exercised
their constitutional rights and civic responsibility, which has served
to continue strengthening the country’s democratic institutions...
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(Video) OAS Secretary General Calls for Coordinated Response to Organized Crime - May 5, 2012 - 7:38:41 AM
The
Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Jose Miguel
Insulza, referred to organized crime as “the main challenge to security
in our hemisphere,” and called on governments in the region to
coordinate their responses to the threat, in a speech to young Latin
Americans studying in the United States at the Forum “Vanguardia Latina
2012” in Washington, DC.
The chief representative of the
hemispheric organization recalled that, according to polling data,
insecurity is the main concern of the citizens of the Americas, and that
organized crime, beyond the direct human cost, represents a threat to
democracy. For that reason, in additional to national efforts, the
response to the threat must also be regional. “One of the great problems
of our strategies against transnational crime,”
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Secretary General Participates in Inauguration of Forum “Vanguardia Latina 2012” - May 4, 2012 - 11:58:05 AM
The
Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José
Miguel Insulza, took part in the opening of the Forum “Vanguardia Latina
2012,” a series of conferences on “The Latin-Hemispheric Agenda,”
presented by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and its program
BID Juventud.
The event, organized by the Mexican NGO “Espacio de
Vinculacion, Asociacion Civil” (EVAC) and Grupo Televisa, will bring
together until Friday more than 150 young Latin American students at the
headquarters of the IBD in Washington DC to share perspectives on the
future of Latin America with business leaders, diplomats and
representatives of NGOs from across the region...
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Organization of American States Electoral Observation Mission Arrives in the Bahamas - May 3, 2012 - 11:16:16 PM
The
Organization of American States Electoral Observation Mission to The
Bahamas (OAS/EOM) arrived in Nassau ahead of the May 7 General
Elections. The team is led by Chief of Mission Ambassador Alfonso
Quiñonez, a former member of the Guatemalan Foreign Service and the
current Secretary for External Relations of the OAS.
The OAS/EOM
is observing these elections following a formal invitation from the
Government of The Bahamas. The team will begin meeting with various
stakeholders following the signing of an electoral observation agreement
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Statement by OAS Secretary General on World Press Freedom Day - May 3, 2012 - 6:10:26 PM
The
Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José
Miguel Insulza, said today that freedom in the practice of journalism is
a basic pillar of democracy, and called on governments and societies as
a whole to respect that right in an effort to build more just and
democratic societies.
The head of the OAS strongly condemned
violence against journalists around the world, and interpreted attacks
against them as an expression of shameful intolerance, contradictory to
the principles of peace and freedom we all seek. He also expressed
concern about the statistics indicating that, in recent years, press
freedom has declined worldwide...
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OAS Assistant Secretary General in Suriname for Foreign Relations Meeting - May 3, 2012 - 2:13:06 PM
The
Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States
(OAS), Ambassador Albert Ramdin, arrived in Suriname this week to attend
a meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR).
The
OAS official will join dozens of Foreign Ministers from around the
region and other parts of the world to examine challenges currently
facing the hemisphere. Ambassador Ramdin is expected to present a
briefing on OAS activities in the region, with a specific emphasis on
Haiti, in addition to briefing Ministers on the upcoming OAS General
Assembly in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and the conclusions of the recent Sixth
Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia.
Upon his arrival
in Suriname, the OAS Assistant Secretary General met...
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OAS and ACS Discuss Collaboration - May 3, 2012 - 1:39:51 PM
Officials
of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Association of
Caribbean States (ACS) met in Port-of-Spain this week to discuss
strengthening the relationship between the two institutions.
OAS
Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin met with ACS Secretary
General Alfonso Múnera Cavadía at the ACS headquarters in Port-of-Spain,
where both officials agreed on the need to strengthen the
inter-institutional dialogue among the OAS, ACS, CARICOM and SICA.
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OAS Donates Firearms Marking Equipment to Antigua and Barbuda - May 2, 2012 - 3:50:17 PM
The
Organization of American States (OAS) today donated a firearms marking
machine to the Government of Antigua and Barbuda to be used by the
Ministry of National Security with the objective of fighting the illicit
trafficking of firearms. This initiative, implemented in 23 countries
of the region, is part of the efforts outlined by the OAS Secretary
General, José Miguel Insulza, and serves to exemplify the organization
as a strategic actor in the fight against crime.
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(Video) OAS and the Bahamas sign Agreement of Privileges and Immunities for Electoral Mission in May - Apr 26, 2012 - 8:32:47 PM
The
Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José
Miguel Insulza, and the Alternate Representative of the Commonwealth of
the Bahamas to the OAS, Freddie Tucker, today signed the Agreement on
the Privileges and Immunities for the Electoral Observation Mission that
the OAS will deploy for the general elections on Monday, May 7, in a
ceremony called "historic" by both sides, held in the main building of
the hemispheric organization in Washington DC.
“We are very happy
to share this opportunity and to share this historic moment in which
for the first time there will be an international electoral observation
in the Bahamas,” said Secretary General Insulza. The chief
representative of the OAS added, “We value very much that those
countries that have a tradition of transparent and normal elections
receive OAS Election Observation Mission, because...
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The
Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José
Miguel Insulza, today congratulated the newly elected Prime Minister of
The Bahamas, Perry Christie, on his victory and that of the Progressive
Liberal Party in the general elections held on Monday, May 7.
