62 Resolution The Organization of American States 2. Based on the proposals in the aforementioned report, to recommend to the General Assembly that it support the applicability of international law to state operations in cyberspace through the approval of the following statement: The OAS General Assembly affirms that international law, including the United Nations Charter in its entirety, the OAS Charter, international humanitarian law, international human rights law, the duty of non-intervention, the sovereign equality of states, and the law of state responsibility, is applicable to the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) by States and those for whom States are internationally responsible. 3. To request the Department of International Law, in its capacity as Technical Secretariat of the Inter-American Juridical Committee, to present to the CJI a proposal to support or undertake training activities for various actors on the application of international law to cyberspace. 4. To keep the theme on its agenda and broaden its scope beyond the themes of international law related to international peace and security to encompass other international legal regimes. This resolution was unanimously approved at the regular session on the 7th August 2020, in the presence of the following members: Drs. Luis García-Corrochano Moyano, Eric P. Rudge, Mariana Salazar Albornoz, José Antonio Moreno Rodríguez, Milenko Bertrand-Galindo Arriagada, Duncan B. Hollis, Alix Richard, George Rodrigo Bandeira Galindo, Miguel A. Espeche-Gil, Íñigo Salvador Crespo and Ruth Correa Palacio. The Organization of American States (OAS) is the world’s oldest regional organization, dating back to the First International Conference of American States, held in Washington, D.C., from October 1889 to April 1890. At that meeting the establishment of the International Union of American Republics was approved. The Charter of the OAS was signed in Bogotá in 1948 and entered into force in December 1951. The Charter was subsequently amended by the Protocol of Buenos Aires, signed in 1967, which entered into force in February 1970; by the Protocol of Cartagena de Indias, signed in 1985, which entered into force in November 1988; by the Protocol of Managua, signed in 1993, which entered into force on January 29, 1996; and by the Protocol of Washington, signed in 1992, which entered into force on September 25, 1997. The OAS currently has 35 member states. In addition, the Organization has granted permanent observer status to a number of states, as well as to the European Union. The essential purposes of the OAS are: to strengthen peace and security in the Hemisphere; to promote and consolidate representative democracy, with due respect for the principle of nonintervention; to prevent possible causes of difficulties and to ensure peaceful settlement of disputes that may arise among the member states; to provide for common action on the part of those states in the event of aggression; to seek the solution of political, juridical, and economic problems that may arise among them; to promote, by cooperative action, their economic, social, and cultural development; and to achieve an effective limitation of conventional weapons that will make it possible to devote the largest amount of resources to the economic and social development of the member states. The Organization of American States accomplishes its purposes by means of: the General Assembly; the Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs; the Councils (the Permanent Council and the Inter-American Council for Integral Development); the InterAmerican Juridical Committee; the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; the General Secretariat; the specialized conferences; the specialized organizations; and other entities established by the General Assembly. The General Assembly holds a regular session once a year. Under special circumstances it meets in special session. The Meeting of Consultation is convened to consider urgent matters of common interest and to serve as Organ of Consultation under the InterAmerican Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (Rio Treaty), the main instrument for joint action in the event of aggression. The Permanent Council takes cognizance of such matters as are entrusted to it by the General Assembly or the Meeting of Consultation and implements the decisions of both organs when their implementation has not been assigned to any other body; it monitors the maintenance of friendly relations among the member states and the observance of the standards governing General Secretariat operations; and it also acts provisionally as Organ of Consultation under the Rio Treaty. The General Secretariat is the central and permanent organ of the OAS. The headquarters of both the Permanent Council and the General Secretariat are in Washington, D.C. 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