OEA/Ser.P
AG/RES. 1612 (XXIX-O/99)
7 June 1999
Original: Spanish

MEETING OF GOVERNMENT EXPERTS ON
ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS

(Adopted at the first plenary session, held on June 7, 1999,
and pending review by the Style Committee)

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

HAVING SEEN the annual report of the Permanent Council on the Meeting of Government Experts on Electoral Campaign Contributions (CP/CAJP-1492/99), presented pursuant to resolution AG/RES. 1554 (XXVIII-O/98);

NOTING the interest expressed by the delegations attending the Meeting of Government Experts on Electoral Campaign Contributions, held in Caracas, Venezuela, in February 1998, and the recommendations resulting from that meeting (RECEL/doc.19/98 rev. 2);

CONSIDERING that the General Assembly, through resolution AG/RES. 1554 (XXVIII-O/98), instructed the Permanent Council to continue its consideration of the topic, bearing in mind the recommendations adopted at the Meeting of Government Experts on Electoral Campaign Contributions; and

CONSIDERING ALSO that at its twenty-eighth regular session, the General Assembly reiterated, through resolution AG/RES. 1554 (XXVIII-O/98), the "concern in the Hemisphere that effective exercise of representative democracy, a fundamental principle enshrined in the OAS Charter, may be threatened by contributions that undermine the integrity of the electoral process,"

RESOLVES:

1. To extend the mandate assigned to the Permanent Council through resolution AG/RES. 1554 (XXVIII-O/98), "Meeting of Government Experts on Electoral Campaign Contributions," and to request that the Permanent Council assign it due priority.

2. To reiterate to the General Secretariat that it continue to compile legislation on electoral campaign contributions and to prepare comparative studies of legislation in this field.