Member states will continue to follow up on the situation in Nicaragua, but “without a cloak of officialdom,” affirms an expert in international relations.
HAVANA TIMES – Four months after Nicaragua ceased being a member of the Organization of American States (OAS), the organization’s Permanent Council will discuss a new draft resolution regarding the country. Among other things, the proposed resolution concludes the mandate of the Work Group on Nicaragua, replacing it with “a voluntary group” to assist the body in its efforts to closely monitor the situation in this Central American country.
The draft resolution known as “Follow-up on the situation in Nicaragua” was included in the agenda for the April 3rd regular session of the Permanent Council. The initiative came at the request of Canada, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, the United States, Peru and Uruguay.
The first point of business for the Permanent Council will be to terminate the “mandate of Resolution 1109 (2175/18) approved in August 2018, that created the Work Group for Nicaragua.” The creation of the Work Group was in response to concern over the brutal repression exercised by the Ortega regime against citizens participating in the massive protests of that period.
Given the need to dissolve the Work Group, the draft resolution proposed the creation of “a voluntary group, open to the participation of all member states, to assist the Permanent Council in their efforts to give special attention to the situation in Nicaragua without generating costs to the Organization’s budget.” It adds that the inputs this group may eventually contribute would be submitted to the Permanent Council for consideration.
Group will lack “any cloak of officialdom”
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