EXECUTIVE COMMITTE 2006-2008 OEA/Ser.L/II.5.29 s1

INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION OF WOMEN

EXECUTIVE COMMITTE 2006-2008 OEA/Ser.L/II.5.29 SECOND REGULAR SESSION CIM/CD/doc.17/07 November 6 - 7, 2007 7 November 2007 Washington, D.C. Original: Spanish

AGREEMENTS REACHED (Provisional)

Place: Guerrero Room (MNB) Date: November 7, 2007 Time: 11:00 to 17:30

Participants:

CIM Executive Committee 2004-2006: Hon. Dr. Jacqui Quinn-Leandro, President (Antigua and Barbuda) Martha Lucía Vásquez, Vicepresident (Colombia) Paulo Moraes de Lima, Alternate Delegate (Brazil) Dora del Carmen Beckley Del Cid, Alternate Delegate (Guatemala) Anne Marie Coriolan, Alternate Delegate (Haiti) Virginia Borra, Principal Delegate (Perú)

Principal Delegates: Phedra M. Rahming Principal Delegate (Bahamas) Clare Beckton, Principal Delegate (Canada) Laura Albornoz Pollmann, Principal Delegate (Chile) Jeannette Carrillo Madrigal, Principal Delegate (Costa Rica) Carmen Elena Calderón Sol de Escalón, Principal Delegate (El Salvador) Rocío García Gaytán, Principal Delegate (México) Maria José Argaña Mateu, Principal Delegate (Paraguay)

Delegations: Deborah Mae-Lovell, Ambassador, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Antigua and Barbuda Anne Marie Layne, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of Antigua and Barbuda Sebastián Molteni, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of Argentina Ricardo Kellman, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of Barbados Osmar Chohfi, Ambassador Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Brazil Dawn Nicholson-O’Brien, Status of Women, Canada - 2 -

Marianne Fofonoff, Status of Women, Canada Malika Benson, Status of Women, Canada Swathi Kappagatula, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of Canada Patricio Reinoso, Jefe de Gabinete de la Ministra, Director del Servicio Nacional de la Mujer Chile Maricel Sauterel, Jefa del Departamento de Relaciones Internacionales y Cooperación del Servicio Nacional de la Mujer Chile Luis Petit-Laurent, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of Chile Sandra Mikan, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of Colombia Yaruma Vásquez, Delegada Suplente, Delegación de Costa Rica Ana León-Paez, Attache, Permanent Mission of Costa Rica Jorge Icaza, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of Ecuador Carolina Sánchez, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of El Salvador Patricia Clarke, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of Grenada Rita Claverie Sciolli, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of Guatemala Elsa Samayoa de González, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of Guatemala Leandra Pastora Bonilla, Alternate Delegate de Honduras Guadalupe Carías, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of Honduras L. Ann Scott, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of Jamaica Patricia Wohlers, Directora General Adjunta de Asuntos Internacionales del Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres de México Irma Pérez Puente, Subdirectora de Proyectos de Asuntos Internacionales, Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres de México Alice Kerber, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of México Denis Moncada Colindres, Ambassador, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Nicaragua Nadine Lacayo, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of Nicaragua Julieta Blandon Miranda, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of Nicaragua Resires Vargas, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of Panamá Milton Ruiz, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of Panamá Sonia Quiroga, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of Paraguay Ramona García, Alternate Delegate (Dominican Republic) Cristy Rodriguez, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of Dominican Republic Rood Elizabeth Fernandez, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of Dominican Republic Clenie Greer Lacascade, Interim Representative, Permanent Mission of Saint Lucia Jasmine Huggins, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of Saint Kitts and Nevis La Celia A. Prince, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Michiel G. Raafender, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of Suriname Frances Seignoret, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of Trinidad and Tobago Margarita Riva-Geoghegan, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of the United States Melissa Kopolow, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of the United States Nelson Pineda, Ambassador, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of Venezuela Carmen Velasquez, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of Venezuela Teresa Arreaza, Alternate Representative, Permanent Mission of Venezuela - 3 -

Permanent Observers Blanca Lalanda Alonso de Armiño, Embassy of Spain

Invited Speakers Pedro Vuskovich, Director, Office of OAS in Nicaragua Odily Castillo, Coordinator of the project “Participation and Gender Equity in Municipal Public Finances in Nicaragua” Michel Bergeron, Director, Department of Science and Technology OAS Irene Klinger, Director, Department of External Relations OAS

CIM Permanent Secretariat: Carmen Lomellin, Executive Secretary Mercedes L. Kremenetzky, Senior Specialist

AGREEMENTS

Agreement No. 1 To approve the final report of the first regular meeting of the Executive Committee, contained in document CIM/CD/doc.10/07.

Agreement No. 2 To request that the Executive Secretary coordinate with the Permanent Council in the formation of the working group under operative paragraph 2 of resolution AG/RES. 2322 (XXXVII-O/07), “Inter-American Year of Women.”

Agreement No. 3 To request that the President to send the principal delegates a reminder note on the transmittal of information on the celebration of 2010 as the Inter-American Year of Women, requesting that they send their proposals on the matter to the Permanent Secretariat by January 15, 2008, so that they may be sent to the working group to be formed within the Permanent Council and so that preparations may begin for the celebration in each of the member states.

Agreement No. 4 To request that the Executive Secretary, in coordination with the OAS Department of External Relations, convene a meeting of permanent observers and other donors to seek resources in support of the sustainability of the Mechanism for Follow-up on Implementation of the Convention of Belém do Pará (MESECVI).

Agreement No. 5 To request that the OAS Department of External Relations create a gender window to channel permanent observer and donor resources toward funding the implementation of the CIM’s biennial work program. - 4 -

Agreement No. 6 To request that the President send to all principal delegates the preliminary draft agenda of the Thirty-fourth Assembly of Delegates of the CIM (CIM/CD/doc.16/07 rev. 1) so they may issue their proposals and comments by January 15, 2008, and the draft agenda may be approved at the next regular meeting of the Executive Committee.

Agreement No. 7 To approve the budgetary execution through October 31, 2007, as set forth in CIM/CD/doc.15/07.

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