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ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE 65th REGULAR SESSION OEA/Ser.Q/VI.35 August 2 to 20, 2004 CJI/doc.174/04 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 20 August 2004 Original: Spanish ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2004 ii iii EXPLANATORY NOTE Until 1990, the OAS General Secretariat had published the Minutes of meetings and Annual Reports of the Inter-American Juridical Committee under the series classified as Reports and Recommendations. In 1997, the International Law Department of the Secretariat for Legal Affairs of the OAS General Secretariat now published those documents under the title Annual report of the Inter- American Juridical Committee to the General Assembly. Under the Classification manual for the OAS official records series, the Inter-American Juridical Committee is assigned the classification code OEA/Ser.Q, followed by CJI, to signify documents issued by this body (see attached lists of resolutions and documents). iv v TABLE OF CONTENTS Page RESOLUTIONS APPROVED BY THE INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE ....................................... vii DOCUMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS ANNUAL REPORT .......................................................................................ix INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................................. 11 CHAPTER I........................................................................................................................................................... 15 1. THE INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE: ITS ORIGIN, LEGAL BASES, STRUCTURE AND PURPOSES....................................................................................................................................... 17 2. PERIOD COVERED IN THIS ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE .................... 19 A. SIXTY- FOURTH REGULAR SESSION .................................................................................................. 19 B. SIXTY-FIFTH REGULAR SESSION ........................................................................................................ 21 CHAPTER II.......................................................................................................................................................... 27 TOPICS DISCUSSED BY THE INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE AT THE REGULAR SESSIONS HELD IN 2004 ......................................................................................... 29 1. LEGAL ASPECTS OF COMPLIANCE WITHIN THE STATES WITH DECISIONS OF INTERNATIONAL COURTS OR TRIBUNALS OR OTHER INTERNATIONAL ORGANS WITH JURISDICTIONAL FUNCTIONS ................... 31 2. LEGAL ASPECTS OF INTER-AMERICAN SECURITY....................................................................................... 41 3. APPLICATION OF THE INTER-AMERICAN DEMOCRATIC CHARTER................................................................ 87 4. JOINT EFFORTS OF THE AMERICAS IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST CORRUPTION AND IMPUNITY ........................ 89 5. PREPARATIONS FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF THE CENTENARY OF THE INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE............................................................................................................................................ 93 6. RIGHT TO INFORMATION: ACCESS AND PROTECTION OF INFORMATION AND PERSONAL DATA........................ 99 7. IMPROVING THE SYSTEMS OF ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN THE AMERICAS: ACCESS TO JUSTICE ........... 107 8. SEVENTH INTER-AMERICAN SPECIALIZED CONFERENCE ON PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW (CIDIP-VII).......................................................................................................................................... 109 9. PREPARATION OF A DRAFT INTER-AMERICAN CONVENTION AGAINST RACISM AND ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AND INTOLERANCE....................................................................................................... 111 CHAPTER III....................................................................................................................................................... 113 OTHER ACTIVITIES........................................................................................................................................... 115 ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT BY THE INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE IN 2004........................................ 115 A. Presentation of the Annual report of the Inter-American Juridical Committee ............................ 115 B. Course of International Law......................................................................................................... 115 C. Relations and forms of cooperation with other inter-American organs and entities and with like regional or world organizations .................................................................. 119 INDEXES ............................................................................................................................................................ 131 ONOMASTIC INDEX ................................................................................................................................ 133 SUBJECT INDEX...................................................................................................................................... 137 vi vii RESOLUTIONS APPROVED BY THE INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE CJI/RES.71 (LXIV-O/04) TRIBUTE TO DR. JONATHAN T. FRIED............................................................ 19 CJI/RES.68 (LXIV-O/04) DATE AND VENUE OF THE 65th REGULAR SESSION OF THE INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE ..................................... 20 TH CJI/RES.66 (LXIII-O/03) AGENDA FOR THE 64 REGULAR SESSION OF THE INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 8 to 19, 2004)...................................................... 21 CJI/RES.79 (LXV-O/04) RESIGNATION OF DR. KENNETH O. RATTRAY.............................................. 22 CJI/RES.72 (LXV-O/04) RECOGNITION TO DR. FELIPE PAOLILLO ...................................................... 23 CJI/RES.73 (LXV-O/04) RECOGNITION TO DR. BRYNMOR THORNTON POLLARD ........................... 23 CJI/RES.70 (LXIV-O/04) AGENDA FOR THE 65TH REGULAR SESSION OF THE INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 2 to 27, 2004)..................................................... 24 CJI/RES.78 (LXV-O/04) AGENDA FOR THE 66TH REGULAR SESSION OF THE INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, February 28 to March 11, 2005) .................................... 25 CJI/RES.74 (LXV-O/04) DATE AND VENUE OF THE 66th REGULAR SESSION OF THE INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE ................................................... 25 CJI/RES.82 (LXV-O/04) LEGAL ASPECTS OF COMPLIANCE WITHIN THE STATES WITH DECISIONS OF INTERNATIONAL COURTS OR TRIBUNALS OR OTHER INTERNATIONAL ORGANS WITH JURISDICTIONAL FUNCTIONS ......................................................................... 35 CJI/RES.75 (LXV-O/04) LEGAL ASPECTS OF INTER-AMERICAN SECURITY...................................... 46 CJI/RES. 80 (LXV-O/04) APPLICATION OF THE INTER-AMERICAN DEMOCRATIC CHARTER............................................................................................................ 88 CJI/RES.77 (LXV-O/04) JOINT EFFORTS OF THE AMERICAS IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST CORRUPTION AND IMPUNITY......................................................... 90 CJI/RES.76 (LXV-O/04) PREPARATIONS FOR THE CENTENNIAL OF THE INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE ................................................... 94 CJI/RES.81 (LXV-O/04) RIGHT TO INFORMATION: ACCESS AND PROTECTION OF INFORMATION AND PERSONAL DATA.................................................... 100 CJI/RES.69 (LXIV-O/04) 32nd COURSE ON INTERNATIONAL LAW....................................................... 119 viii ix DOCUMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS ANNUAL REPORT Page CJI/doc.146/04 rev.2 LEGAL ASPECTS OF COMPLIANCE WITHIN THE STATES WITH DECISIONS OF INTERNATIONAL COURTS OR TRIBUNALS OR OTHER INTERNATIONAL ORGANS WITH JURISDICTIONAL FUNCTIONS (presented by Dr. Luis Herrera Marcano)............................................................ 36 CJI/doc.167/04 rev.2 REPORT ON THE CURRENT STATUS OF THE TOPIC ON: “LEGAL ASPECTS OF COMPLIANCE WITHIN THE STATES WITH DECISIONS OF INTERNATIONAL COURTS OR TRIBUNALS OR OTHER INTERNATIONAL ORGANS WITH JURISDICTIONAL FUNCTIONS” (presented by Dr. Luis Herrera Marcano)............................................................ 39 CJI/doc.147/04 rev.1 LEGAL ASPECTS OF HEMISPHERIC SECURITY (working document for the preparation of a draft resolution on the action of the Organization of American States on matters related to international peace and security) (presented by Dr. Eduardo Vio Grossi) ............................................................... 47 CJI/doc.159/04 corr. 1 LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE INTER-AMERICAN SECURITY: PRINCIPLES OR GENERAL REGULATIONS ABOUT THE ACTION OF THE ORGANIZATION OF THE AMERICAN STATES IN TERMS OF INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY (presented by Dr. Eduardo Vio Grossi) ............................................................... 59 CJI/doc.156/04 rev.2 BOOK ON THE INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE CENTENARY (Coordinators Drs. Eduardo Vio Grossi, Luis Herrera Marcano, João Grandino Rodas and Mauricio Herdocia Sacasa) ............................................... 95 CJI/doc.175/04 CONSOLIDATED VERSION OF THE PROGRAM FOR THE CELEBRATION OF THE INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL