Jamaica’s Audrey Marks to chair OAS Everlasting Council

Audrey Marks, Jamaica’s Everlasting Consultant to the Group of American States (OAS), has been assigned because the chair of the OAS Everlasting Council till September 30 of this 12 months.

Carlos Quesada, Honduras’ Everlasting Consultant, is slated to function vice chair of the council all through the July-September interval.

Throughout the Monday handover ceremony held on the OAS headquarters in Washington, Marks shared her imaginative and prescient for constructive chairmanship. 

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She expressed that she seems to be ahead to a “very productive chairmanship that can end in tangible and fruitful outcomes for the advantage of our hemisphere.”

She identified that the OAS Normal Meeting in June served as a potent reminder of the inescapable connections between human rights, democracy, and sustainable improvement.

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Audrey Marks highlights persistent hurdles within the Caribbean

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Marks additionally highlighted the persistent challenges within the area, notably within the Caribbean. 

These embody meals and vitality insecurity, an onslaught of non-communicable ailments, and hindrances to democratic governance and improvement agendas, all of that are regularly threatened by crime and violence.

As such, she underscored the rising significance of multilateral mechanisms just like the OAS Everlasting Council, stating, they “have a fair higher position to play, because it permits the additional deepening of our engagement, in our efforts to collectively tackle these challenges plaguing our area.”

The rotational system of OAS Everlasting Council management

Jamaica claimed the council’s chairmanship from Uruguay. Beforehand, Uruguay’s Everlasting Consultant, Washington Abdala, held the place from March to June.

The OAS informs that the Chair of the Everlasting Council rotates each three months amongst member states of the hemispheric physique, following alphabetical order. 

The vice chair place additionally undergoes the same rotation each three months, although in reverse alphabetical order.

 

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