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The
XLVII Meeting of the Summit Implementation Group (SIRG) at the
Ministerial Level took place on June 5, 2007, in Panama City,
Panama, within the framework of the XXXVII General Assembly of the
Organization of American States (OAS). The meeting of foreign
ministers and senior officials of the thirty-four member states was
convened by the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago -
the first such ministerial level meeting of the SIRG since Trinidad
and Tobago assumed the Chairmanship of the Summits process as host
of the Fifth Summit of the Americas to be held in Port of Spain in
2009. Senator the Honourable Arnold Piggott, Minister of Foreign
Affairs chaired the meeting.
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Nearly 200 civil society representatives from 24 countries of
the Western Hemisphere met on June 3, 2007 with the Heads of
Delegations of OAS Member States and the OAS Secretary General
in Panama City to discuss the theme of the XXXVII OAS General
Assembly, “Energy for Sustainable Development”, as well as other
topics of the inter-American agenda. The objective of the
Dialogue of the Heads of Delegations with Civil Society
Representatives, which took place in the framework of the XXXVII
OAS General Assembly, held June 3-5, 2007, was to provide an
opportunity for the exchange of points of view among the Heads
of Delegations of the OAS Member States, the OAS Secretary
General, and civil society organizations. |
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