The Organization of American States is an international organization founded on 30 April 1948 to promote cooperation among its member states within the Americas.
Belize maintains 14 embassies to foreign countries,one consulate,and three missions to international organizations. In 1990,Belize became a member of the Organization of American States,and the Commonwealth of Nations in 1981.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is an autonomous organ of the Organization of American States (OAS).
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States is the highest position within the Organization of American States.
The Summit of the Americas (SOA) are institutionalized gatherings of heads of state and government of the member states of the Western Hemisphere were leaders discuss common policy issues,affirm shared values an commit to concerted actions at the national and regional level to address continuing and new challenges faced by countries in the Americas.
JoséMiguel Insulza Salinas is a Chilean politician,lawyer,and academic serving as a senator for the Arica y Parinacota Region since 2018. He previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1994 to 1999 and Minister Secretary-General of the Presidency from 1999 to 2000 under president Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle,as Minister of the Interior from 2000 to 2005 under president Ricardo Lagos,and as Secretary General of the Organization of American States from 2005 to 2015.
The Senate is the upper chamber of the National Assembly of Belize. It has 13 members appointed for a five-year term by the governor general.
Frank Almaguer is an American retired diplomat and career Foreign Service Officer. He has served in numerous positions with the Peace Corps,the United States Agency for International Development,the U.S. Department of State and the Organization of American States.
Thomas Alfred Shannon Jr. is an American diplomat who served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2016 to 2018. In early 2017,Shannon served as acting United States Secretary of State until President Donald Trump's nominee,Rex Tillerson,was confirmed. He was also acting Deputy Secretary of State of the United States until the Senate confirmed President Trump's nominee,John J. Sullivan.
The Belizean–Guatemalan territorial dispute is an unresolved territorial dispute between the states of Belize and Guatemala,neighbours in Central America. During the late 1600s and throughout the 1700s,Britain and Spain signed several treaties regarding territories in the Americas. Both nations agreed that the territory of modern-day Belize was under Spanish sovereignty though British settlers could use the land,in specific areas and for specific purposes. The area was never fully under British or Spanish rule at this time and the British settlers continually expanded far past the boundaries set by the treaties. When the Spanish Empire fell,Guatemala said that it inherited Spain's sovereign rights over the territory. Since independence Guatemala has claimed,in whole or in part,the territory of Belize.
Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro is a Brazilian legal scholar with relevant work within the United Nations System.
Guillermo John Roque Fernández de Soto Valderrama is a Colombian lawyer and diplomat,who has served as Secretary General of the Andean Community of Nations,Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia,Ambassador of Colombia to the Kingdom of the Netherlands,and designated-Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotenciary,Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations in New York.
Carmen Lomellin is an American diplomat of Mexican heritage from East Chicago,Indiana. Lomellin served as United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States from 2009 to 2016.
Luis Leonardo Almagro Lemes is a Uruguayan lawyer,diplomat,and politician who currently serves as the 10th Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) since 2015. A former member of the Broad Front,Almagro served as Minister of Foreign Relations of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015 under president JoséMujica.
Kairat Ermekuly Umarov is a diplomat for the Republic of Kazakhstan. On October 6,2022,he was appointed First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan.
Jaime Aparicio Otero is the Bolivian Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States and was Bolivian Agent to the International Court of Justice,in the Hague,in the process against Chile related to the Silala waters. Ambassador Aparicio is a career diplomat,lawyer,journalist and a Washington-based legal and political advisor. He was also a political analyst working in international public and corporate affairs in Latin America,the Caribbean,North America,and Europe. He has a Law Degree from the Higher University of San Andrés of La Paz,the Bolivian Diplomatic Academy and the Institute d’Etudes Politiques commonly referred as Sciences Po de Paris.
The secretariat for multidimensional security of the Organization of American States is a part of the General Secretariat,which is headquartered in Washington,D.C.,United States. The Secretariat for Multidimensional Security has a mandate to promote cooperation between Organization's Member States,Inter-American and international organizations,as well as with entities such as the United Nations and its subsidiaries,in order to analyze,prevent,confront and respond to security threats.
Sir Ronald Michael Sanders is an Antiguan Barbudan diplomat,academic,former broadcast-journalist,and the current Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States and to the Organization of American States (OAS) since 2015. He holds the unique distinction of being the first person,since the OAS enlarged its membership in 1962,to serve as Chairman of the Permanent Council of the OAS for an unprecedented three terms. He completed his highly successful third term on December 31,2023,having played a widely recognized role in guiding the work of the Permanent Council in the peaceful transition of government in Guatemala on 14 January 2024.
Gillian Bristol is a diplomat from Grenada,serving as ambassador to the United States and Mexico for the small island nation. She was the first Caribbean Islander to be president of the OAS Staff Association.
Dame Deborah Mae Lovell,DCN,is an Antiguan and Barbudan woman who served as Ambassador to the U.S. and the Organization of American States (OAS).
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