77th MEETING OF THE DIRECTING COUNCIL OF THE
INTER-AMERICAN CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE

May 13-15, 2002
Montevideo, Uruguay


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CD/RES. 11 (77-R/02)

 

AMENDMENTS OF THE STATUTES

THE DIRECTING COUNCIL:

HAVING SEEN

The Statutes of the Inter-American Children’s Institute, as amended, which were approved by the Directing Council at its 75th Meeting, held in Ottawa, in Resolution CD/RES.01 (75-R/00), and which are pending approval by the Permanent Council;

TAKING INTO ACCOUNT

The situation that occurred at the 76th Meeting of the Directing Council owing to the temporary absence, for reasons beyond their control, of the President and Vice-President, and to the lack of express provision in the said Statutes for such a situation;

CONSIDERING

  1. That it is necessary to clarify the articles of the amended text approved at the 75th Meeting providing for the election of President and Vice-President of the Directing Council and the members of the Executive Committee, and to amend the numbering of some of the articles, before the Statutes are forwarded to the Permanent Council for approval;

  2. That it is necessary to introduce in the Statutes a provision to resolve the situation of temporary absence of the President or Vice-President, during the Meetings of the Directing Council.

RESOLVES:

1. To amend the text of Article 20 and Article 21 of the Statutes of the IIN to read as follows:

Article 20:  The Directing Council shall elect, from among the Delegates that compose it and by the vote of a majority of the member states present, a President and Vice-President, and five member states, whose Delegates shall serve on the Executive Committee, which shall be composed of seven members, for a term of two years.  The President and Vice-President of the Directing Council shall also serve as Chairman and Vice-Chairman respectively of the Executive Committee, which shall meet at least once a year. 

When a vacancy occurs in the office of President, he/she shall be replaced by the Vice-President until the next meeting of the Directing Council, where an election shall be held to fill the office until the end of the unexpired term. 

In the event of the temporary absence of the President and/or Vice-President during meetings of the Directing Council, that body, meeting in plenary, shall elect, from among the Delegates present and by the vote of a majority of them, an acting President and/or Vice-President.

Article 21:  No member state may present its candidacy for more than one vacant office per term.  In electing member states to the Executive Committee, the meeting of the Directing Council shall seek to observe the principle of equitable geographic balance among the following five subregions: (1) United States of America, Canada, and Mexico; (2) Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago; (3) Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama; (4) Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela; and (5) Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

2.   To amend the numbering of Articles 22 through 37 of the current Statutes to Articles 23
      through 38, and to approve the following text for Article 22:

 Article 22:  The President and Vice-President may be re-elected for only one consecutive term.  The other five member states comprising the Executive Committee may not be re-elected for consecutive terms, but their Delegates may be elected for the offices of President and Vice-President. 

3.  To instruct the Office of the Director General to seek the corresponding ratification by the
     Permanent Council of the OAS, pursuant to the provisions in force.