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<title>
OAS Resolution on Peruvian Democratic Reversal
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<article>
<hdr>
Foreign Policy Bulletin, May/June 1992
U.S., OAS Call for Restoration of Constitutional Democracy in
Peru. Resolution of OAS Ministers of Foreign Affairs, April 14,
1992
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<p>The Ad Hoc Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs,
</p>
<p> Having seen the Permanent Council resolution of April 6,
1992, convoking an ad hoc Meeting of Ministers of Foreign
Affairs in accordance with the provisions of Resolution
AG/RES.1080 (XXI-0/91) and with the Santiago Commitment to
Democracy and the Renewal of the Inter-American System;
</p>
<p> Having heard the statement made by the Minister of Foreign
Affairs of Peru on the grave situation his country is
experiencing and on the events that have taken place there;
</p>
<p>Reaffirming:
</p>
<p> That one of the essential purposes of the Organization of
American States is to promote and consolidate representative
democracy while respecting the principle of nonintervention; and
</p>
<p> That the solidarity of the American states and the high aims
that are sought through it require the political organization
of those states on the basis of the effective exercise of
representative democracy; and
</p>
<p> Considering that the grave events that have taken place in
Peru seriously prejudice the institutional order and disrupt the
rule of representative democracy in a member state of the
Organization,
</p>
<p>Resolves;
</p>
<p> 1. To strongly deplore the events that have taken place in
Peru, and to express the highest level of concern, since such
events seriously prejudice the effectiveness of the
institutional mechanisms of representative democracy in that
country and in the region.
</p>
<p> 2. To appeal for the immediate reestablishment of democratic
institutional order in Peru, for an end to all actions that
impair the observance of human rights, and for abstention from
adoption of any new measures that will further aggravate the
situation.
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<p> 3. To urge the Peruvian authorities to immediately release
the legislators and political and civic leaders who have been
deprived of their liberty under these lamentable circumstances
and to guarantee those persons the exercise of their rights
without any restriction.
</p>
<p> 4. To voice profound concern over the present status of
rights and liberties in Peru and to demand that the Peruvian
authorities guarantee full observance and exercise of the rights
of assembly and association and of the freedom of expression,
thought, and the press.
</p>
<p> 5. To urge the Government of Peru to make formal its
invitation to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to
investigate the human rights situation in Peru so that it may
report thereon to the Permanent Council.
</p>
<p> 6. To request the President of the ad hoc Meeting of
Ministers of Foreign Affairs, together with those ministers he
designates and the Secretary General, to travel to Peru and take
immediate measures to bring about a dialogue among the Peruvian
authorities and the political forces represented in the
legislature, with the participation of other democratic sectors,
for the purpose of establishing the necessary conditions and
securing the commitment of the parties concerned to reinstate
the democratic institutional order, with full respect for the
separation of powers, human rights, and the rule of law.
</p>
<p> 7. To ask all member states, permanent observer states, and
all states, that they continue examining the situation in Peru,
and that, taking into account the pace of the reestablishment
of democratic institutional order in Peru, they reassess their
relations with that country, as well as the assistance they give
Peru.
</p>
<p> 8. To keep open the ad hoc Meeting of Ministers of Foreign
Affairs so that it may receive the report on the steps referred
to in operative paragraph (6) of this resolution by May 23,
1992, at the latest, and may consider the adoption of new
measures, if appropriate.
</p>
<p> 9. To instruct the Secretary General to keep the Ministers
of Foreign Affairs informed, through the Permanent Council, on
the efforts made.
</p>
<p> 10. To transmit this resolution to the Secretary General of
the United Nations.
</p>
<p>(Support for the Restoration of Democracy in Peru MRE/RES.1/92
(April 14, 1992). Text provided by General Secretariat of the
Organization of American States, Washington.)
</p>
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