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General
Assembly of the Organization of American States
The General Assembly is the supreme decision-making body of the Organization of American States (OAS). The General Assembly came into being as a part of the restructuring of the OAS that took place following adoption of the Protocol of Buenos Aires (signed 27 February 1967; in force as of 12 March 1970), which contained extensive amendments to the Organization's Charter. Prior to these changes, the OAS's top body was the Inter-American Conference, which in turn was the successor to the International Conference of American States. The Charter requires that the General Assembly convene once every year in a regular session. In special circumstances, and with the approval of two-thirds of the member states, the Permanent Council can convene special sessions. The Organization's member states take turns hosting the General Assembly on a rotating basis. The states are represented at its sessions by their chosen delegates: generally, their ministers of foreign affairs, or their appointed deputies. Each state has one vote, and most matters – except for those for which the Charter or the General Assembly's own rules of procedure specifically require a two-thirds majority – are settled by a simple majority vote. The General Assembly's powers include setting the OAS's general course and policies by means of resolutions and declarations; approving its budget and determining the contributions payable by the member states; approving the reports and previous year's actions of the OAS's specialized agencies; and electing members to serve on those agencies. |
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Annual Meeting
Location Date 1st San José, Costa Rica April 14 - 23, 1971
2nd Washington, D.C., USA April 11 - 21, 1972 3rd Washington, D.C.,
USA April 4 - 15, 1973 4th Atlanta, Georgia, USA April 19 - May
1, 1974 5th Washington, D.C., USA May 8 - 19, 1975 6th Santiago,
Chile June 4 - 18, 1976 7th St. George's, Grenada June 14 - 22,
1977 8th Washington, D.C., USA June 21 - July 1, 1978 9th La Paz,
Bolivia October 22 - 31, 1979 10th Washington, D.C., USA November
19 - 26, 1980 11th Castries, Saint Lucia December 2 - 11, 1981 12th
Washington, D.C., USA December 15 - 21, 1982 13th Washington, D.C.,
USA November 14 - 18, 1983 14th Brasília, Brazil November
12 - 17, 1984 15th Cartagena, Colombia December 5 - 9, 1985 16th
Guatemala City, Guatemala November 11 - 15, 1986 17th Washington,
D.C., USA November 9 - 14, 1987 18th San Salvador, El Salvador November
14 - 19, 1988 19th Washington, D.C., USA November 13 - 18, 1989
20th Asunción, Paraguay June 4 - 8, 1990 21st Santiago, Chile
June 3 - 8, 1991 22nd Nassau, Bahamas May 18 - 23, 1992 23rd Managua,
Nicaragua June 7 -11, 1993 24th Belém do Pará, Brazil
June 6 - 10, 1994 25th Montrouis, Haiti June 5 - 9, 1995 26th Panama
City, Panama June 3 - 7, 1996 27th Lima, Peru June 1 - 5, 1997 28th
Caracas, Venezuela June 1 - 3, 1998 29th Guatemala City, Guatemala
June 6 - 8, 1999 30th Windsor, Ontario, Canada June 4 - 6, 2000
31st San José, Costa Rica June 3 - 5, 2001 32nd Bridgetown,
Barbados June 2 - 4, 2002 33rd Santiago, Chile June 8 - 10, 2003
34th Quito, Ecuador June 6 - 8, 2004 35th Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
USA June 5 - 7, 2005 36th Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic June
4 - 6, 2006 37th Panama City, Panama (Planned) June 3 - 5,2007. |
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