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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2002-2004OEA/Ser.L/II.5.27
FOURTH REGULAR MEETINGCIM/CD/doc.47/04
February 19-20, 200420 February 2004
Washington, D.C.Original: Spanish
AGREEMENTS ADOPTED
(Provisional)
Place: Padilha Vidal RoomDate: February 20, 2004
Building of the Americas Time: 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Participants:
Members of the 2002-2004 Executive Committee of the CIM:
Ms. Yadira Henríquez, Principal Delegate (Dominican Republic)
Ms. Jodi Lynn Brown, Alternate Delegate (Canada)
Ms. Rita Di Martino, Principal Delegate (United States)
Ms. Ivania Toruño de Martínez, Principal Delegate (Nicaragua)
Delegations:
Ms. Juliana di Tullio, Principal Delegate (Argentina)
Ms. Patricia Bozo de Durán, Alternative Representative, Permanent Mission of Bolivia
Ms. Marcia Adorno Ramos, Alternative Representative, Permanent Mission of Brazil
Ms. Mandy Sheldrake, Alternative Representative, Permanent Mission of Canada
Ms. Martha Lucía Vásquez, Principal Delegate of Colombia
Ms. Vera Aguilar, Officer in Charge of International Relations and Cooperation, National Women’s Institute (INAMU), Costa Rica
Ms. Verónica Pena, Alternative Representative, Permanent Mission of Ecuador
Ambassador Margarita Escobar, Permanent Representative of El Salvador to the OAS
Ms. Carmen Elena Calderón de Escalón, Principal Delegate (El Salvador)
Mr. Daniel Cento, Alternate Delegate (United States)
Ms. Margarita Riva-Geoghan, Alternate Delegate (United States)
Ms. Elsa Samayán, Alternative Representative, Permanent Mission of Guatemala
Ms. Bibi Shadick, Principal Delegate (Guyana)
Ms. María Guadalupe Carías, Alternative Representative, Permanent Mission of Honduras
Ms. Marcelina Y. Cruz, Alternate Delegate (Mexico)
Ms. Ivania Toruno, Principal Delegate (Nicaragua)
Ms. Noris Alderson, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of Panama
Ms. Patricia Frutos Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of Paraguay
Ms. Ana Peña, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of Peru
Dr. Nora Nivar, Alternate Delegate (Dominican Republic)
Ambassador Sofía Leonor Sánchez-Baret, Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic to the OAS
Ms. Jasmine Huggins, Alternate Delegate (Saint Kitts and Nevis)
Ms. Yasmin Solitahe Odlum, Alternate Delegate (Saint Lucia)
Ms. Urmila Joella-Sewnundun, Principal Delegate (Suriname)
Mr. Henry Mac-Donald, Alternate Delegate (Suriname)
Ms. Jennifer Marchand, Alternate Delegate (Trinidad and Tobago)
Ms. Laura Dupuy, Alternative Representative, Permanent Mission of Uruguay
Ms. Katiuska Rodríguez, Alternative Representative, Permanent Mission of Venezuela
Ms. Magaly Saavedra, Alternative Representative, Permanent Mission of Venezuela
Other participants
Ms. Susan E. Willis, Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the OAS
Mr. Rex Garcia, ECLAC
Mr. Guillermo Grajales, IICA
Permanent Secretariat of the CIM:
Ms. Carmen Lomellin, Executive Secretary
Ms. Mercedes L. Kremenetzky, Principal Specialist
AGREEMENTS ADOPTED
Agreement No. 1To adopt, as amended, the Final Act of the Third Regular Meeting of the Executive Committee, contained in document CIM/CD/doc.35/04 rev. 1
Agreement No. 2To adopt the guidelines contained in document CIM/CD/doc.43/04 for preparing Ministers’ reports to be presented to REMIM-II on best practices in the areas of labor, education, and justice
Agreement No. 3To convene an informal working meeting open to all delegations to receive comments on the draft resolutions to be presented to REMIM-II for its consideration, especially those pertaining to gender mainstreaming in the Declaration and Plan of Action of the Summit of the Americas to be held in 2005, and in the topic of gender and trade
Agreement No. 4To request the Executive Secretary to seek funding to hold a meeting on elements of the laws on violence in the Caribbean area in order to gather information to be used in preparing a manual of good practices and specific advances in legislation on violence against women. This manual would be presented to the upcoming Assembly of Delegates to be held in October 2004
Agreement No. 5To set July 20 and 21, 2004, as the date for the Meeting of Experts on Violence, to be held in Mexico, to draft the draft mechanism for follow-up of implementation of the Convention of Belém do Pará
Agreement No. 6To set July 22 and 23, 2004, as the date for the Fifth Regular Meeting of the Executive Committee, to be held in Mexico
Agreement No. 7To present to the upcoming Meeting of Ministers of Justice or of Ministers or Attorneys General of the Americas (REMJA-V) a request that the topic of trafficking in persons, especially women, adolescents, and girls and boys be included on the agenda for that meeting
Agreement No. 8To adopt the results of SEPIA III, Gender and Education, contained in document CIM/CD/doc.40 rev. 2, and to request the Executive Secretary to ensure that copies of this document are forwarded to the Ministers of Education, the participants in the meeting, the Unit for Social Development and Education, the Chair of the Inter-American Committee on Education (CIE), and the representative of the member state with responsibility for the chapter on education, who chairs the group of eleven in the Summits of the Americas process
Agreement No. 9To set October 26-28, 2004, as the date for the Thirty-second Assembly of Delegates of the CIM, to be held in Costa Rica
Agreement No. 10To adopt the report of the CIM to the OAS General Assembly at its thirty-fourth regular session, and to request the Executive Secretary to present it to the Chair of the Permanent Council of the Organization
Agreement No. 11To approve the budgetary execution as of February 17, 2004, contained in document CIM/CD/doc.45/04
Agreement No. 12As names of eminent persons of the Americas are being assigned to the new conference rooms of the OAS Building of the Americas, to urge the Principal Delegates, through the permanent missions, accordingly to propose names of eminent women of their countries. To instruct the Executive Secretary to continue to collaborate in the procedures to ensure that the conference room adjoining the offices of the CIM is assigned the name of the first President of the CIM, Doris Stevens.