Chile’s Insulza re-elected as Secretary General of the OAS
March 25th, 2010 - 2:57 am ICT by BNO NewsWASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) — José Miguel Insulza was re-elected on Wednesday to a second five-year term as the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS).
Secretary General Insulza, 66, was re-elected during the Thirty-Ninth Special Session of the OAS General Assembly held at the Organization’s headquarters.
The former Chilean minister was reelected by acclamation after the Minister of Foreign Relations of Paraguay, Héctor Lacognata, elected to chair the Assembly, made the proposal.
Secretary General Insulza urged the member states of the hemispheric organization to continue working for democracy, human rights, public security and other common values.
“I believe we have made progress in many of these, more than is sometimes acknowledged outside the organization,” the Secretary General said. “But we can still make a big effort to improve our work, to make sure that all the resources our states contribute at great sacrifice are well utilized, and to seek more external resources.”
“In the years ahead we will continue to fight to strengthen the representative democracy we have achieved through such great efforts, and which we’ve only had for a few decades,” Insulza said.
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