{"id":108841,"date":"2020-03-26T15:44:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T19:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=108841"},"modified":"2020-03-26T15:44:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T19:44:58","slug":"commentary-whither-the-divided-organisation-of-american-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-whither-the-divided-organisation-of-american-states\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMENTARY: Whither The Divided Organisation Of American States?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Sir Ronald Sanders<\/span><\/b><\/p>

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(The writer is Ambassador of Antigua and Barbuda to the United States and the Organisation of American States.\u00a0 He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and at Massey College in the University of Toronto.\u00a0The views expressed are entirely his own)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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On 20 March 2020, a reckless and irresponsible General Assembly (GA) was held by the Organization of American States (OAS), putting the health of many at risk and giving an entirely wrong example to the entire world.\u00a0\u00a0The meeting of at least 50 persons was held amid intense concerns about the quickly spreading Coronavirus (COVID-19), and despite the strongest possible recommendations by US and international health authorities not to hold gatherings larger than 10 persons.<\/span><\/p>

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This dangerous act was done to hold the election for a Secretary-General of the Organization and to gain an advantage for the incumbent, Luis Almagro, who was the declared candidate of the US, Brazil and Colombia.\u00a0 \u00a0Almagro\u2019s current term does not end until May 28.\u00a0\u00a0 Therefore, the meeting could easily have been postponed for at least a month, allowing time for greater control of COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>

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Despite logic and good sense, many member states of the Organization were coerced into holding what was, at best, a wrongful meeting.\u00a0\u00a0At worst, the meeting was illegal.<\/span><\/p>\n

The meeting proceeded, based on the advice of the Legal Secretary of the OAS.\u00a0 He is an employee of the Secretariat and is answerable to the Secretary-General.\u00a0\u00a0 He may be the most independent-minded and fair person in the world, but because all his opinions have synchronised with the positions of the Secretary-General and powerful states within the Organisation, healthy scepticism of his advice is understandable.<\/span><\/p>

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Remarkably, the Permanent Council of the OAS \u2013 the supposedly highest, day to day decision-making organ of the institution \u2013 has no legal counsel of its own, and no machinery for seeking external and independent legal guidance. \u00a0Therefore, the opinion of the Legal Secretary prevails.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the week running-up to the GA, the US was in a state of heightened concern over the Coronavirus (COVID-19).\u00a0 The official advice from the Mayor of the District of Colombia, the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the President of the US himself was to hold no gatherings larger than ten persons.<\/span><\/p>

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Three days before the meeting, 13 CARICOM countries sent a joint letter to all member states of the OAS and to the Secretary-General, pointing out the dangers of the meeting, and the powerful advice from all pertinent health authorities, to postpone it.\u00a0\u00a0 Haiti was the only CARICOM country that did not sign the official letter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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While the CDC was asked to examine the OAS building at which the meeting was held, there were no other pertinent checks.\u00a0 No one, entering the room, was checked for their travel history, or for the travel history of persons with whom they had been in contact.\u00a0 Anyone could have been COVID-19 positive, but simply displaying no symptoms.\u00a0 The virus is known to take up to 14 days to incubate.\u00a0 The dangerous consequences of that meeting may yet unfold.<\/span><\/p>\n

Up to the day prior to the event, meetings of representatives of the regional groups of the Organisation were held electronically to consider the letter from the 13 Caribbean countries, which had the private backing of many other states although some of them were silent publicly for whatever reason. <\/span><\/p>\n

On March 19, the Legal Secretary gave the opinion that the GA could only be postponed by the Permanent Council since the decision to hold the General Assembly on March 20 was taken by the Permanent Council and only the Permanent Council could change its own rules.\u00a0 When asked whether the Permanent Council could hold an electronic meeting to consider postponement, the Legal Secretary gave the further opinion, ex cathedra,<\/i> that the rules of the Council did not permit electronic meetings.\u00a0 It seemed not to occur to him that the rules were written, prior to the technological age in which circumstances, such as COVID-19, did not exist.\u00a0 He also casually dismissed the notion that where rules are silent on a course of action, simple common sense should prevail.\u00a0\u00a0 In all the opinions he gave, the Legal Secretary was backed up by the representatives of the countries determined to hold the GA on March 20.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is important to note here is that a precedent has now been set.\u00a0 No meetings of the Permanent Council can be held electronically since the rules do not provide for it.\u00a0 The Organization may yet be hoisted by this petard in the weeks ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of further note is that the GA was held under new rules of procedure that were not approved by the GA itself, although only the GA could change its own rules.\u00a0\u00a0 None of the states that insisted on holding it, nor the Legal Secretary, has explained on what authority the rules were changed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All of this is a sad indication of what the OAS has become.\u00a0 It is an organisation run by a few for a few.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In any event, Luis Almagro was elected for a second term with 23 votes.\u00a0 Ten countries voted for Maria Fernanda Espinosa, the remaining contender, since the Peruvian candidate Luis de Zela had withdrawn, and Dominica was the sensible absentee. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the last few years, the OAS has experienced a bitter period of division among its member states that has left the Organization weakened and lacking in a coherent vision of its way forward in the collective interest of the people of the Americas that it was created to serve. <\/span><\/p>\n

If these divisions are not bridged and these wounds are not healed, the Organization will continue to exist only as a cauldron for disagreement and discord.\u00a0\u00a0 This would be catastrophic for the OAS as an institution. It would also be calamitous for Almagro\u2019s record.<\/span><\/p>\n

Majority is not consensus.\u00a0 To operate only based on satisfying a majority, however achieved, neglects the interests of many others.\u00a0\u00a0 The OAS will not survive in constant contention, vexation and division.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Almagro\u2019s second term provides him a great opportunity to leave a legacy of which he could be proud and which all member states could honour.\u00a0 It will require him to be attentive to the needs and aspirations of each group within the OAS, and to forge a common and vibrant agenda on which there is genuine consensus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The member states themselves also must be committed to that goal and act on it, or the Organisation will wither into a few states, using it as a bullhorn for their own positions, disdained by others tired of being subjugated.<\/span><\/p>\n

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Ambassador of Antigua and Barbuda to the United States and the Organisation of American States.\u00a0 He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and at Massey College in the University of Toronto.\u00a0The views expressed are entirely his own) \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nCOMMENTARY: Whither The Divided Organisation Of American States? - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-whither-the-divided-organisation-of-american-states\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COMMENTARY: Whither The Divided Organisation Of American States?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Ambassador of Antigua and Barbuda to the United States and the Organisation of American States.\u00a0 He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and at Massey College in the University of Toronto.\u00a0The views expressed are entirely his own) \u00a0 […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-whither-the-divided-organisation-of-american-states\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Antigua News Room\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-03-26T19:44:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Ronald-Sanders-e1567707045878.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"377\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"350\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-whither-the-divided-organisation-of-american-states\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-whither-the-divided-organisation-of-american-states\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5\"},\"headline\":\"COMMENTARY: Whither The Divided Organisation Of American States?\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-03-26T19:44:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-03-26T19:44:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-whither-the-divided-organisation-of-american-states\/\"},\"wordCount\":1111,\"commentCount\":2,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-whither-the-divided-organisation-of-american-states\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:377\/h:350\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Ronald-Sanders-e1567707045878.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-whither-the-divided-organisation-of-american-states\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-whither-the-divided-organisation-of-american-states\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-whither-the-divided-organisation-of-american-states\/\",\"name\":\"COMMENTARY: Whither The Divided Organisation Of American States? 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