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- OAS Resolution on Peruvian Democratic Reversal
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- <hdr>
- Foreign Policy Bulletin, May/June 1992
- U.S., OAS Call for Restoration of Constitutional Democracy in
- Peru. Resolution of OAS Ministers of Foreign Affairs, April 14,
- 1992
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- <p>The Ad Hoc Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs,
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- <p> Having seen the Permanent Council resolution of April 6,
- 1992, convoking an ad hoc Meeting of Ministers of Foreign
- Affairs in accordance with the provisions of Resolution
- AG/RES.1080 (XXI-0/91) and with the Santiago Commitment to
- Democracy and the Renewal of the Inter-American System;
- </p>
- <p> Having heard the statement made by the Minister of Foreign
- Affairs of Peru on the grave situation his country is
- experiencing and on the events that have taken place there;
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- <p>Reaffirming:
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- <p> That one of the essential purposes of the Organization of
- American States is to promote and consolidate representative
- democracy while respecting the principle of nonintervention; and
- </p>
- <p> That the solidarity of the American states and the high aims
- that are sought through it require the political organization
- of those states on the basis of the effective exercise of
- representative democracy; and
- </p>
- <p> Considering that the grave events that have taken place in
- Peru seriously prejudice the institutional order and disrupt the
- rule of representative democracy in a member state of the
- Organization,
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- <p>Resolves;
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- <p> 1. To strongly deplore the events that have taken place in
- Peru, and to express the highest level of concern, since such
- events seriously prejudice the effectiveness of the
- institutional mechanisms of representative democracy in that
- country and in the region.
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- <p> 2. To appeal for the immediate reestablishment of democratic
- institutional order in Peru, for an end to all actions that
- impair the observance of human rights, and for abstention from
- adoption of any new measures that will further aggravate the
- situation.
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- <p> 3. To urge the Peruvian authorities to immediately release
- the legislators and political and civic leaders who have been
- deprived of their liberty under these lamentable circumstances
- and to guarantee those persons the exercise of their rights
- without any restriction.
- </p>
- <p> 4. To voice profound concern over the present status of
- rights and liberties in Peru and to demand that the Peruvian
- authorities guarantee full observance and exercise of the rights
- of assembly and association and of the freedom of expression,
- thought, and the press.
- </p>
- <p> 5. To urge the Government of Peru to make formal its
- invitation to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to
- investigate the human rights situation in Peru so that it may
- report thereon to the Permanent Council.
- </p>
- <p> 6. To request the President of the ad hoc Meeting of
- Ministers of Foreign Affairs, together with those ministers he
- designates and the Secretary General, to travel to Peru and take
- immediate measures to bring about a dialogue among the Peruvian
- authorities and the political forces represented in the
- legislature, with the participation of other democratic sectors,
- for the purpose of establishing the necessary conditions and
- securing the commitment of the parties concerned to reinstate
- the democratic institutional order, with full respect for the
- separation of powers, human rights, and the rule of law.
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- <p> 7. To ask all member states, permanent observer states, and
- all states, that they continue examining the situation in Peru,
- and that, taking into account the pace of the reestablishment
- of democratic institutional order in Peru, they reassess their
- relations with that country, as well as the assistance they give
- Peru.
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- <p> 8. To keep open the ad hoc Meeting of Ministers of Foreign
- Affairs so that it may receive the report on the steps referred
- to in operative paragraph (6) of this resolution by May 23,
- 1992, at the latest, and may consider the adoption of new
- measures, if appropriate.
- </p>
- <p> 9. To instruct the Secretary General to keep the Ministers
- of Foreign Affairs informed, through the Permanent Council, on
- the efforts made.
- </p>
- <p> 10. To transmit this resolution to the Secretary General of
- the United Nations.
- </p>
- <p>(Support for the Restoration of Democracy in Peru MRE/RES.1/92
- (April 14, 1992). Text provided by General Secretariat of the
- Organization of American States, Washington.)
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