Part III WESTERN HEMISPHERE DEVELOPMENTS A. The Inter-American System-The Organization of American States Document III-1 The Organization of American States and the Situation in the Americas: INTRODUCTION TO THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE OAS (MORA) ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE OAS, JULY 1, 1964 JUNE 30, 1965 1 1 Document III-2 The Budget of the Organization of American States for the Fiscal Year July 1, 1964-June 30, 1965: RESOLUTION APPROVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE OAS, JUNE 10, 1964 2 THE COUNCIL OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES RESOLVES: 1. To approve the program of activities presented by the Secretary General in the Proposed Program and Budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1965,3 with the changes, observations, and recommendations formulated by the Committee on Program and Budget in its report. 2. To appropriate the amount of $14,548,940 to meet the expenses for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1965, and the amount of $431,140 for the Working Capital Fund, distributed as follows: 1OAS doc. OEA/Ser.D/III.16. The Introduction is almost exclusively concerned with the crisis in the Dominican Republic and with the preparations for the Second Special Inter-American Conference, both of which occurred in 1965. For this reason, the Introduction will be printed in American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1965. For a brief treatment of events from Jan.-June 1964, see ibid., 1963, pp. 223–226. Chapter I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. Executive Office Organs of the Council of the OAS Pan American Union Offices (outside of headquarters) Department of Economic Affairs Department of Social Affairs Department of Statistics Department of Technical Cooperation Department of Legal Affairs Department of Cultural Affairs Amount $470, 057 977, 004 394, 999 1, 147, 356 997, 950 888, 025 2, 491, 230 518, 630 767, 207 X. Department of Educational Affairs 299, 073 XI. Department of Scientific Affairs 301, 140 Activities of the Pan American Union at the New York a. Expenses in connection with Resolution IV of c. Expenses in connection with the Committee d. Expenses up to February 29, 1964, in connection with the activities foreseen in Resolutions A-8 and C-6 of the First Annual Meeting of the IA-ECOSOC at the Ministerial Level (Mexico City),' (Doc. C-i-597 Rev. 2)–. $100,000 8, 682 28, 802 20, 010 28, 579 See American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1959, pp. 359–373. 3. To authorize the Secretary General: a. To transfer the funds corresponding to Chapter XXI, Contingencies, to other chapters and to use them to meet unforeseen requirements. b. To transfer funds among the rest of the chapters of the budget, not to exceed 5 per cent of the total assigned to the chapter from which these funds are taken, and provided that this does not mean the elimination or substantial alteration of any approved program. In the event that this transfer exceeds the aforementioned 5 per cent, the Secretary General must first obtain authorization from the Committee on Program and Budget. The Council shall be notified of all transfers at the time they are made. c. To transfer up to $50,000 a year from the Working Capital Fund in order to meet increases in printing costs, replacement of supplies of publications, and increase in editions of periodical publications. It is understood that funds taken from the Working Capital Fund shall be reimbursed by depositing in it income resulting from the sale of publications and that, with the financial statements of the corresponding year, a report shall be submitted on the matter. 4. To suspend, for reasons of economy, the provision contained in the second sentence of Article 28 of the Statutes of the Inter-American Economic and Social Council.R Document III-3 The Scale of Assessment of Members of the Organization of American States for the Fiscal Year July 1, 1964-June 30, 1965: RESOLUTION APPROVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE OAS, JUNE 10, 1964 o THE COUNCIL OF THE RESOLVES: ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES 1. To establish, in accordance with the resolution adopted by the Council on the basis for financing the Pan American Union, dated December 21, 1949, the percentages and amounts set forth below, as the scale of assessments for the contributions to be made by the governments of the member states for the support of the Pan American Union for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1964, and ending June 30, 1965. 8 See ibid., 1961, pp. 418-431. A separate resolution dated June 10, 1964, requested the Secretary-General to keep the budget for fiscal year 1965–1966 generally within the amount authorized for 1964-1965. (OEA/Ser.G/III/C-sa-544.) OAS doc. OEA/Ser.G/III/C-sa-544. [Footnote Uruguay Venezuela TOTALS 1 Rounded to even dollars. This contribution is shown only for the purpose of establishing the correlative percentages. in source text.] 2. That the expenses for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1965 be met in the following manner: a. Contributions of the member states b. Miscellaneous income (Activities of the Pan American Union at the New York World's Fair) 14, 943, 080 37,000 Nine-Point Program To Strengthen the Inter-American System: STATEMENT READ BY THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE OAS (MORA) BEFORE THE COUNCIL OF THE OAS, OCTOBER 21, 1964 (EXCERPT) 10 In my position as Secretary General, responsible for the direction of the Pan American Union, the central and permanent organ of the Organization, I consider it my duty to the Council and to the governments and peoples here represented to point out some of the areas in which it is possible to advance more rapidly in order to provide solutions to urgent political and legal problems. In a document that the General Secretariat will have completed in a few days, I propose to analyse in due detail the technical aspects of the ideas I now advance. Today, however, I shall limit myself to setting forth a basic program of nine points that is the result of reflections growing out of a study of the task demanded by the new times. 19 OAS doc. OEA/Ser.G/V/C-d-1258, Corr., Oct. 15, 1964. First Point: Need for holding an annual political meeting at the ministerial level to examine the general situation of the regional community 11 The Inter-American Conference is the general assembly of the system. It is supposed to meet every five years in order to decide the general action and policy of the Organization. Article 36 of the Charter contemplates the possibility of convoking a special Inter-American Conference or changing the date of the next regular Conference. ence. 13 I feel today's circumstances demand that a special Inter-American Conference be convened with the greatest urgency." Apart from this, however, the multiplicity of problems and the accelerated rate of change in the political, economic, and social conditions of America make it imperative, as a suitable means of facing present-day realities, that the Ministers of Foreign Affairs meet at least once a year to examine the general situation of the regional community. Such a meeting is provided for in Resolution IX of the Chapultepec ConferThe great flexibility of the system, to which I have referred, allows such an annual meeting to be held, either as a special Inter-American Conference, as a formal or informal meeting of Ministers, or as a meeting of the Council of the Organization at the ministerial level. It is not necessary at this time to suggest precisely what form such a meeting would have. The important thing is simply to point out that such a meeting is practically a requirement of present-day international life. Such a meeting would provide an annual confrontation in the political area similar to that which has been introduced in the economic and social field with the meetings of Ministers of Economy or Finance. In a similar way, also, the periodic meetings of the Ministers of Education have been scheduled. Second Point: Greater utilization of the Council of the Organization The Council has a broad sphere of action that has been gradually expanded by virtue of a variety of assignments it has received, including some that require taking decisions of a definitely political character. Resolution XLVI of the Tenth Inter-American Conference, held at Caracas, charged the Council with drawing up, at the request of the governments, agreements aimed at promoting inter-American cooperation; with preparing, on its own initiative, studies and drafts on topics of the agenda of the Inter-American Conference or the Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs; and with submitting recommendations to the governments or the Inter-American Conference on the functioning of the Organization." The studies and functions with which the Council is charged by the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Meetings of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs; 15 Operation Pan America; 1 the functions assigned to the Coun "Text in A Decade of American Foreign Policy: Basic Documents, 1941–49, pp. 427-445. 12 At a meeting of the Council of the OAS on Nov. 4, 1964, two resolutions were adopted the first, to convoke the First Special Inter-American Conference for the purpose of establishing a procedure for the admission of new members of the OAS; and the second, to convoke the Second Special Inter-American Conference to consider, among other topics, various matters of fundamental importance to the strengthening of the inter-American System (OAS doc. OEA/Ser.G/ III/C-sa-553). The First Special Conference convened on Dec. 16, 1964 (see post, doc. III-6). The Second Special Conference convened in Nov. 1965. 13 Text in Report of the Delegation of the United States of America to the Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace, Mexico City, February 21-March 8, 1945 (Department of State publication 2497), pp. 76–80. 14 Text in Tenth Inter-American Conference, Caracas, Venezuela, March 1–28, 1954: Report of the Delegation of the United States of America, With Related Documents (Department of State publication 5692), pp. 116-117. 15 See American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1959, pp. 359–373; ibid., 1960, pp. 219–221, 260-262; ibid., 1962, pp. 320-331; and post, doc. III-29. 16 300. Ibid., 1958, pp. 380–381, 402–431; ibid., 1959, pp. 393–436; ibid., 1960, pp. 281– |