Tag: Organization of Americas States, OAS

• Wednesday, December 13th 2017 - 21:50 UTC

  OAS observers will be deployed in Brazil's general election of October 2018

  

  The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Brazil signed the Procedural Agreement for the first deployment of an Electoral Observation Mission to Brazil.

• Saturday, July 22nd 2017 - 11:06 UTC

  Only Venezuelan legislative has power to convene elections, argues OAS based on Venice Commission

  

  The office of OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro released a statement with comments from the European Council Venice Commission on the legality of the Venezuelan presidency decree which was used to convene elections for a constituent assembly to modify the country´s main law.

• Wednesday, April 5th 2017 - 05:06 UTC

  Mine Action Day 2017: OAS calls on regional countries to continue clearing landmines

  

  On this International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action 2017, the Organization of American States (OAS) wishes to highlight the many significant advances toward the goal of making the Americas the first landmine-free zone in the world.

• Wednesday, January 18th 2017 - 11:46 UTC

  OAS praises strength of US electoral process but observes campaign financing

  

  The strength of U.S. democracy goes beyond the particularities of an electoral process, said the Organization of American States, OAS, Electoral Observation Mission to the recent general elections in the United States in the presentation of its final report to the Permanent Council. However it also underlined that the campaign financing is “the most deregulated in forty years”.

• Thursday, November 24th 2016 - 07:55 UTC

  Ex OAS head plans to seek Chile's Socialist nomination for 2017 presidential election

  

  Former OAS Secretary-General Jose Miguel Insulza said on Wednesday that he plans to seek the Socialist Party's nomination for president of Chile. “I come to confirm that I am available to participate in the decisions of the Socialist Party,” he told reporters at the party's Santiago headquarters just hours after resigning as Chile's agent in litigation with Bolivia before the International Court of Justice.

• Wednesday, November 23rd 2016 - 11:41 UTC

  Uruguay ratifies OAS convention for human rights protection of the elderly

  

  Uruguay became the first member state of the Organization of American States (OAS) to deposit the instrument of ratification of the Inter-American Convention on the Protection of the Human Rights of Elderly Persons. The Permanent Representative of Uruguay, Hugo Cayrús, recalled that the legislature of his country ratified the Convention in September.

• Saturday, October 22nd 2016 - 09:33 UTC

  US receives Monday OAS Electoral observation mission ahead of 8 November vote

  

  Next Monday, October 24th, the Chief of the Organization of American States Electoral Observation Mission (OAS/EOM) to the United States, former Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla, will begin a preliminary visit to the United States during which she will hold meetings with key authorities and stakeholders of the electoral process in the states of Georgia and Pennsylvania, as well as the District of Columbia.

• Tuesday, September 13th 2016 - 10:44 UTC

  First OAS Electoral Observation Mission to the US next November 8

  

  The former president of Costa Rica, Laura Chinchilla, will head the first Electoral Observation Mission that the OAS will deploy to the United States and that will observe the upcoming November 8 elections.

• Thursday, July 28th 2016 - 11:23 UTC

  Uruguay will transfer Mercosur chair to Venezuela, despite objections from Brazil and Paraguay

  

  Despite objections from Brazil and Paraguay, Uruguay next Saturday 30 July will transfer to Venezuela the rotating chair of Mercosur for the second half of the year, as indicated in the “group's rules and regulations”.

• Thursday, June 23rd 2016 - 06:03 UTC

  Maduro-Shannon discuss restarting relations; OAS debates implementing Democratic Charter on Venezuela

  

  Veteran U.S. diplomat Tom Shannon spoke for nearly two hours with Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday to re-start relations between the ideologically opposed governments amid a punishing economic crisis in the oil rich country.