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AG/RES. 1984 (XXXIV-O/04)
INTER-AMERICAN COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
(Adopted at the fourth plenary session, held on June 8, 2004)
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
HAVING SEEN resolutions CIDI/RES. 55 (IV-O/99) and AG/RES. 1678 (XXIX-O/99),
“Mechanisms for Implementing the Inter-American Dialogue on Partnership for Development”; and
CIDI/RES. 131 (VIII-O/03) and CIDI/RES. 160 (IX-O/04), “Inter-American Committee on Social
Development”;
CONSIDERING:
That the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) established, through its
Permanent Executive Committee (CEPCIDI), the Social Development Committee, pursuant to
resolution AG/RES. 1424 (XXVI-O/96);
That, by resolution AG/RES. 1678 (XXIX-O/99), the name of the Social Development
Committee was changed to the Inter-American Committee on Social Development;
That in the Declaration of Margarita of the High-Level Meeting on Poverty, Equity, and
Social Inclusion, the high authorities responsible for social development policies and programs
encouraged the Committee to hold a meeting in 2004, and instructed the Unit on Social Development
and Education to support the work of the Inter-American Committee;
That, in the Declaration of Nuevo León of the Special Summit of the Americas, the Heads of
State and Government recognized the urgency of strengthening OAS mechanisms for fighting
poverty, such as CIDI, the Inter-American Committee on Social Development, and the InterAmerican Program to Combat Poverty and Discrimination; and
That the purpose of CIDI’s Inter-American Committee on Social Development is to
strengthen inter-American dialogue to support policy development and cooperative action on social
development matters, in particular to fight poverty and discrimination in the Hemisphere; and
BEARING IN MIND:
That the Inter-American Committee on Social Development held its first meeting in Santiago,
Chile, on April 5 and 6, 2004;
That during said meeting the Committee considered its Draft Rules of Procedure, contained
in document CIDI/CIDES/doc.3/04 Rev. 2, and recommended that CIDI approve them; and