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Posted: Thursday 11 December, 2014 at 10:15 AM

OAS to Elect Next Secretary General and Assistant Secretary General on March 18, 2015

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By: OAS, Press Release

    December 11th, 2014  --  The member states of the Organization of American States (OAS) determined that the next Assistant Secretary General will be elected on the same day as the election of the next Secretary General – March 18, 2015 – as was decided today by the Permanent Council in a regular meeting at the headquarters of the hemispheric institution in Washington DC.

     

    The vote will be held in a Special General Assembly at 16:00 EST (21:00 GMT), following the election of the next Secretary General at 10:00 EST (15:00 GMT). Previously, the two elections took place on separate dates.

    During the meeting, the Council also heard a presentation on the launch of the Inter-American Rapid Alerts System (SIAR), which the Vice Chair of the Council and Permanent Representative of Suriname to the OAS, Niermala Badrising, who presided over today´s meeting, described as “the first hemispheric integrated system for the generation, management, and rapid and safe exchange of information on consumer safety alerts.”

    The presentation was delivered by the National Secretary for the Consumer of the Ministry of Justice of Brazil, Juliana Pereira da Silva, whose country holds the Chair of the Management Committee of the Consumer Safety and Health Network (CSHN), in which the SIAR had its origins. Secretary Pereira da Silva announced that, beginning today, the new portal is active at www.oas.org/rcss.

    In addition, she explained that, “since its first mandate in 2009 and its creation in 2010, the CSHN has become consolidated as the only hemispheric mechanism of oversight of the security of the products that circulate in the markets of the region, as a key element of trade, fundamental to economic and social development.” Moreover, she said the SIAR responds to the need “to ensure a timely exchange of information between member states to facilitate the measures necessary to prevent, restrict or impose specific conditions on the commercialization of consumer products that pose a serious risk to the health and security of consumers, with criteria shared through hemispheric alerts.”

    The Secretary General of the OAS, José Miguel Insulza, thanked Brazil for the role it has played on this issue and called the launching of the SIAR an important achievement that will contribute to protecting consumers in the region. Likewise, he highlighted the work of the officials of the Organization who have been focused on the area, and that of several member countries in addition to Brazil, among them Argentina, Colombia, Peru, the United States and Canada.

    The Council also received a report on the results of the 24th Ibero-American Summit in Veracruz, Mexico, in which Secretary General Insulza participated, and to which the Heads of State and Government of the Americas and the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries of Europe were invited. The Permanent Representative of Mexico to the OAS, Emilio Rabasa, who presented the report, highlighted that “the challenge of our nations for this Summit in addition to the preservation and promotion of the cultural patrimony, was to associate this enormous cultural heritage with social well-being.”

    The Permanent Representative of Mexico said that during the event “progress was made in the composition of a digital cultural agenda for Ibero-America that will contribute to the consolidation of an Ibero-American cultural space, and its insertion into global information networks,” among other results.

    During the meeting, the Vice Chair of the Council and several representatives joined in the commemoration today of Human Rights Day, and congratulated Uruguay and Dominica on the successful elections held in their countries this week.

    During the meeting, the representatives of Brazil, Canada, Paraguay, Barbados, Uruguay, the United States, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Guyana, Belize, Honduras, Costa Rica, The Bahamas, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela, Chile, Dominica and the Permanent Observers of Portugal and Spain took the floor. 

    A gallery of photos of the event is available here.

    The video of the event is available here.

    The audio of the event is available here.

    For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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