AGREEMENT BETWEEN
THE NATIONAL OFFICE OF THE OAS IN URUGUAY
AND
THE INTER-AMERICAN CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE

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CONSIDERING: 

That in September 2001, the General Assembly of the Organization of American States adopted the “Inter-American Democratic Charter,” whose Article 1 states that “The peoples of the Americas have a right to democracy and their governments have an obligation to promote and defend it”; 

That one of the functions of the Office of the General Secretariat of the OAS in the Member States is to promote the priority issues on the Organization’s agenda in each country; 

That the Inter-American Children's Institute (hereinafter known as the IIN), as part of its agreement with the Unit for the Promotion of Democracy (hereinafter known as the UPD), has produced a promotional video of approximately 30 seconds in duration, intended to inform about the Inter-American Democratic Charter, in an effort to fulfill the provisions contained therein. 

The Parties hereby agree to the following: 

1.         The IIN shall provide the Office of the GS/OAS in Uruguay with a copy of the aforementioned video, in Betacam, VHS and DVD formats corresponding to the region’s standard. 

2.        The Office of the GS/OAS in Uruguay shall take the appropriate steps to disseminate this video in Uruguay through the open-access and cable television media, and shall inform the IIN and the UPD of the actions taken. 

This Agreement is signed by Ing. Roberto Casañas, Director of the Office of the SG/OAS in Uruguay, and Lic. Alejandro Bonasso, Director General of the IIN, in the city of Montevideo on the 5^th.  day of the month of  March, 2004. 

Roberto Casañas                                                                                        Alejandro Bonasso
Director of the OAS in Uruguay                                                                    Director General -  IIN 

The Director General of the IIN signs this agreement on an ad referendum basis, subject to the approval of the IIN Directing Council.