The resolution also encourages international organizations to continue to provide technical and financial support. Furthermore, the resolution requested that the General Secretariat continue to support and work through the Program for Comprehensive Action against Antipersonnel Mines AICMA to raise voluntary support from member states, other states and international organizations.
Assembly members also asked the Secretariat to provide the necessary resources for mine-clearing programs and the Inter-American Defense Board to continue providing technical support. It encouraged the provision of support for the Mine-Clearing Assistance Program in Central America, acknowledged the accomplishments of Ecuador and Peru in destroying their stockpiles and in mine-clearing efforts, and also reaffirmed its commitment to the universal elimination of antipersonnel land mines and the creation of an antipersonnel-landmine-free zone.
Finally, it urged states to ratify the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Antipersonnel Mines and On Their Destruction, and to become parties to the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, and asked the secretary general to consider developing new mine action programs. In addition, Costa Rica declared itself free of antipersonnel mines. According to the Coordinator of the Mine Action Program, the program is facing serious financial difficulties that could interrupt mine-clearing programs in Central America, at a time when some of those nations are close to being declared landmine-free.
To date, with the exception of the United States and Cuba, all the nations of the Americas have signed and 31 have ratified the Convention. The resolution called upon Member States that had not yet done so to declare and implement moratoria on the production, use, and transfer of all antipersonnel landmines in the Western Hemisphere at the earliest possible date and to continue to implement measures aimed at halting the proliferation of antipersonnel landmines and at the destruction of stockpiles.
Those that have already signed the Convention are called upon to report to the General Secretariat on the status of their ratification process. These resolutions also request the Permanent Council, through its Committee on Hemispheric Security with support from the General Secretariat, and as a confidence- and security-building measure, to implement a complete and integrated register of antipersonnel landmines based on the information provided each year by Member States on the approximate number of antipersonnel land mines in their stockpiles, the number of antipersonnel landmines that have been removed during the past year, plans for clearance of the remaining landmines, and any other pertinent information.
The Member States have also been urged to implement measures aimed at suspending the spread of antipersonnel landmines, such as stockpile destruction; and to adopt domestic legislation to prohibit the private possession and transfer of antipersonnel landmines and to inform the secretary general when they have done so. This humanitarian program seeks to reestablish citizen confidence and security and to reduce the hazard created by landmines and other unexploded war material.
The basic objectives of CICTE, as set forth in the Commitment of Mar del Plata, are to: enhance the exchange of information via the competent national authorities, including the establishment of an Inter-American database on terrorism issues; formulate proposals to assist Member States in drafting appropriate counterterrorism legislation in all states; Compile the bilateral, subregional, regional, and multilateral treaties and agreements signed by Member States and promote universal adherence to international counterterrorism conventions; enhance border cooperation and travel documentation security measures; and develop activities for training and crisis management.
The agenda focused on three topics of discussion: public-private cooperation in the protection of critical infrastructure, security for major events, and public-private partnerships in maritime security. The main agenda item was a dialogue on critical infrastructures: policies, regulations, and hemispheric cooperation. Participants discussed their commitment to anti-terrorism efforts, and were invited to accede to the UN conventions on terrorism and ratify the Inter-American Convention against Terrorism.
They approved the Work Program, which includes new programs to meet security requirements in civil aviation and maritime transportation, and the Declaration of Montevideo. In the Declaration, delegates declared their renewed commitment to eliminating terrorism and urged member governments to promote legislative measures to criminalize the acts identified in the Inter-American Convention against Terrorism. The CICTE also held several simulation exercises and seminars in counterterrorism efforts during the year.
In the declaration, they recognized the threat posed by terrorism, the link between it and illicit trafficking in drugs and arms, and work done by Member States. Member States also affirmed their resolve to carry out the Work Plan and strengthen cooperation against terrorism. In the latter, it reaffirmed its commitment to cooperation against terrorism, and endorsed the Declaration of San Salvador on Strengthening Cooperation in the Fight Against Terrorism.
It also asked the CICTE to continue to facilitate dialogue on this issue, and to cooperate with various inter-American committees to combat the links between terrorism and illicit trafficking in drugs, arms, and with transnational crime. It had been drafted in and signed by 30 Member States on 3 June of that year. Participants discussed means of communication between various counterterrorism experts, training initiatives, and the CICTE work plan.
On 7 October, the OAS, in conjunction with the UN Committee against Terrorism, held a meeting to address the role of regional and international organizations in counterterrorism policy. On January 30, policy experts from the Member States participated in a policy development role playing exercise hosted by the United States to examine possible courses of action in response to a terrorist scenario.
This resolution included among other items the following issues pertinent to CICTE: a call upon all Member States to strengthen cooperation, at the regional and international levels, to pursue, capture, prosecute, and punish and, as appropriate, to expedite the extradition of the perpetrators, organizers, and sponsors of these terrorist acts, strengthen mutual legal assistance, and exchange information in a timely manner.
It also instructed the Permanent Council to convoke, as soon as possible, a meeting of the Inter-American Committee Against Terrorism so that it may identify urgent actions aimed at strengthening inter-American cooperation to prevent, combat, and eliminate terrorism in the hemisphere; and entrusted the Permanent Council with preparing a draft Inter-American Convention against Terrorism with a view to presenting it to the next session of the OAS General Assembly.
In addition, the resolution urged the states to study the international legal repercussions of the conduct of government authorities who provide financial support to, protect, or harbor terrorist individuals or groups. Between these sessions, three subcommittees Financial Controls, Border Controls, and Work Plan worked diligently to identify counter-terrorism actions for OAS Member States to implement at the multi-lateral, regional, sub-regional, and national levels and to draft an agenda for CICTE to pursue in No session was scheduled in Explore the Center.
Close Organization of American States OAS OAS consists of 35 independent states of the Americas who seek to establish and maintain peace and justice, promote solidarity, strengthen collaboration, and defend their sovereignty, territorial integrity, and independence.
Member See Status. Want to dive deeper? Signed 14 subsequent members. Ratified All 35 independent countries of the Americas. Background The principles that embody the Organization of American States OAS grew out of a history of regional cooperation dating back to the 19th century. Permanent Observer status was granted to two new states, Slovenia and Nigeria. Please enable JavaScript to correctly view this web site.
Por favor, activar JavaScript para ver este sitio de web. Por favor ative o JavaScript para visualizar este site. There were, in the meantime, conferences and meetings that attempted to give birth to the system, but it was only at the invitation of the Government of the United States that the process began that was to continue uninterruptedly until this day.
Eighteen American States took part in that Conference, in which it was agreed to constitute the "International Union of American Republics for the prompt collection and distribution of commercial information," with its headquarters in Washington. With respect to legal matters, the Conference recommended adopting provisions to govern extradition; it declared that conquest does not create rights; and it produced guidelines for the drafting of a treaty on arbitration that could avoid recourse to war as a means to resolve controversies among American nations.
This Conference laid the foundations of what would later become the inter-American system: commercial concerns directed toward achieving greater integration; legal concerns with strengthening state and private sector ties in a peaceful environment of regional cooperation and security; and the establishment of specialized institutions in different spheres. Apart from those Conferences, there were also Meetings of Ministers of Foreign Affairs and special meetings, such as the Conference on Inter-American Problems of War and Peace in Mexico City, to discuss joint activities to be undertaken by the American States consistent with the United Nations, which was then in the process of being established, or the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Continental Peace and Security, convened in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in , which adopted the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, in the aftermath of the World War II and as the Cold War began to loom, in order to ensure legitimate collective self-defence in the event of an attack from a foreign power from outside the region and to decide on joint actions in the event of a conflict between two States Parties to the Treaty.
Throughout this period, numerous agreements were adopted that established the basic principles of what would later become the Organization of American States. Although that Convention received few ratifications and, in particular, was not followed by the southern countries of South America, which preferred the provisions of the Montevideo Treaties on Private International Law of and , it was an important step on the way to codification and progressive development of private international law.
In addition to the Pan American Union, a set of institutions were gradually established to facilitate cooperation in specific areas. An Inter-American Court of Justice was proposed back in but has never materialized, even though there was a precedent in the form of the Central American Court of Justice, which functioned from to Thus a whole network of regional international institutions was established to strengthen cooperation among American States on the wide range of subjects on the regional agenda.
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