Permanent Representative of Guyana assumes Chair of Permanent Council
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Last Updated Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Source - SF Caribbean News
WASHINGTON, DC - The Permanent Representative of Guyana, Ambassador Bayney R. Karran, today assumed the Chair of the Permanent Council of the Organization of the American States (OAS), in a ceremony held at OAS headquarters in Washington, DC.
The Guyanese diplomat affirmed that the OAS is ready to make “significant progress in a number of areas” such as strengthening “democracy, social rights and the human rights system. The OAS is the locomotive of hemisphere wide integration and it is up to us, the Member States, to ensure that it is on the right track and in motion towards those objectives,” he stated.
Ambassador Karran also stated that it is “a great honor and pride” for his country to assume the Chair of the Council and highlighted that the General Secretariat “will have my unconditional support.” At the same time, he called for OAS Member States to jointly confront this “period that is not without its challenges and difficulties”, though he is “confident that we can make good progress.”
The outgoing Chair and Permanent Representative of Guatemala, Ambassador Jorge Skinner-Klee, thanked the support he received during the time of his tenure and expressed his availability to collaborate with the new Chair.
The Vice Chair was assumed by the Permanent Representative of Chile, Ambassador Dario Paya, who replaced the Ambassador of Colombia, Luis Alfonso Hoyos.
The ceremony was attended by the OAS Secretary General, José Miguel Insulza, the OAS Assistant Secretary General, Albert Ramdin, and the Permanent Representatives of Barbados, Belize, Canada, Haiti, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Venezuela.
The Statute of the Permanent Council establishes that the Chair is to be held successively by each of the Permanent Representatives, in alphabetical order as determined by each country’s name in Spanish, and the Vice Chair in the same manner, following reverse alphabetical order. Both positions have a term of three months.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Last Updated Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Source - SF Caribbean News
WASHINGTON, DC - The Permanent Representative of Guyana, Ambassador Bayney R. Karran, today assumed the Chair of the Permanent Council of the Organization of the American States (OAS), in a ceremony held at OAS headquarters in Washington, DC.
The Guyanese diplomat affirmed that the OAS is ready to make “significant progress in a number of areas” such as strengthening “democracy, social rights and the human rights system. The OAS is the locomotive of hemisphere wide integration and it is up to us, the Member States, to ensure that it is on the right track and in motion towards those objectives,” he stated.
Ambassador Karran also stated that it is “a great honor and pride” for his country to assume the Chair of the Council and highlighted that the General Secretariat “will have my unconditional support.” At the same time, he called for OAS Member States to jointly confront this “period that is not without its challenges and difficulties”, though he is “confident that we can make good progress.”
The outgoing Chair and Permanent Representative of Guatemala, Ambassador Jorge Skinner-Klee, thanked the support he received during the time of his tenure and expressed his availability to collaborate with the new Chair.
The Vice Chair was assumed by the Permanent Representative of Chile, Ambassador Dario Paya, who replaced the Ambassador of Colombia, Luis Alfonso Hoyos.
The ceremony was attended by the OAS Secretary General, José Miguel Insulza, the OAS Assistant Secretary General, Albert Ramdin, and the Permanent Representatives of Barbados, Belize, Canada, Haiti, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Venezuela.
The Statute of the Permanent Council establishes that the Chair is to be held successively by each of the Permanent Representatives, in alphabetical order as determined by each country’s name in Spanish, and the Vice Chair in the same manner, following reverse alphabetical order. Both positions have a term of three months.