{"id":25857,"date":"2019-04-11T11:31:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T15:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=25857"},"modified":"2019-04-11T11:31:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T15:31:10","slug":"commentary-selling-or-saving-the-soul-of-the-oas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-selling-or-saving-the-soul-of-the-oas\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMENTARY: Selling or saving the soul of the OAS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Sir Ronald Sanders<\/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\u00a0He 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.\u00a0\u00a0The views expressed are entirely his own)<\/i><\/p>\n

The Organisation of American States (OAS), already a broken institution, was shattered even more on April 9 at a meeting of its Permanent Council.\u00a0\u00a0It is now an organisation whose membership is deeply divided and amongst whom mistrust, and bitterness now predominates.<\/p>

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How this huge problem will be fixed \u2013 if it can be fixed at all \u2013 is the paramount challenge that now confronts its 33 and a half members.\u00a0\u00a0I will return to the half-member later in this commentary.<\/p>

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Nothing that I say in this commentary is a secret.\u00a0\u00a0The Permanent Council meeting of April 9 was played out in a live webcast on the OAS\u2019 website.<\/p>\n

The meeting was held, after weeks of efforts by the United States and most of the members of the so-called Lima Group, to secure the adoption of a resolution that would unseat the representative of the Nicolas Maduro government and replace him with the nominee of Juan Guaido.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Guaido is the self-proclaimed \u201cInterim President\u201d of Venezuela, so recognised by roughly 50 of the more than 200 governments in the world.<\/p>

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The manoeuvrings behind the scenes had a single purpose and that was to procure 18 votes, constituting a simple majority of the 34 member-states, to impose Guaido\u2019s nominee as Venezuela\u2019s representative.<\/p>\n

It took some time for the core 14 countries to woo the support of 4 others, not least because the manner of pushing the resolution through the Permanent Council defied international law and the Charter and rules of the OAS.\u00a0\u00a0Governments had to dig deep to balance disregard for the integrity of the OAS as an institution and a desire to help those countries that were determined to seat Guaido\u2019s representative.<\/p>

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The meeting was summoned for high noon on April 9 and all delegations were cautioned to be on time for a prompt start.\u00a0\u00a0As it turned out delegates were forced to wait until after 1pm to start the meeting because, at the last minute, Jamaica – one of the faithful 18 – insisted on new language, causing commotion among the group and threatening to derail its entire effort.<\/p>

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Even when the resolution was presented to the Permanent Council Meeting and was being debated, it was unclear what text was being considered.\u00a0\u00a0What was before the meeting was the original text, omitting the Jamaica language.\u00a0\u00a0A request from me, as the representative of Antigua and Barbuda, for clarification, resulted in a break in the meeting\u2019s proceedings to produce the final text of the resolution.\u00a0\u00a0Its main purpose remained to accept the appointment of \u201cthe National Assembly\u2019s designated Permanent Representative\u201d.<\/p>\n

There was much solemn and serious debate about the entire proceedings, but in the end, 18 countries, using their razor-thin majority, forced the vote through.<\/p>\n

Some self-interested governments have characterised the April 9 meeting as a clash of support for or against the contending forces in Venezuela.\u00a0\u00a0Sections of the media have followed that line.<\/p>\n

But, far from being about Maduro\/Guaido and Venezuela, the meeting was about selling or saving the soul of the OAS; it was about disregarding international norms and ignoring the institutional framework of the Organisation for the short-term political purposes of a few; and it was about arguing for the retention of the OAS\u2019 integrity.<\/p>\n

At the end of the vote, passed by a simple majority, the Ambassador of Mexico, Jorge Lom\u00f3naco Tonda, summed-up the meeting well.\u00a0\u00a0He said: \u201cThere were no winners or losers; only losers\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And, the biggest loser was the OAS itself.<\/p>\n

Nowhere in the Charter of the OAS, or in its rules, does the Permanent Council have the authority to decide on the recognition of a government.\u00a0\u00a0Further, as was stated repeatedly at the meeting, the recognition of a government is the sovereign right of states and cannot be determined or imposed by a multilateral organisation.\u00a0\u00a0At the very least, the matter, given its high political importance, should have been considered by a special session of the general assembly, the highest organ of the OAS.<\/p>\n

What the hasty, ill-considered process succeeded in doing is damaging the OAS as an institution, tainting its structure and governance, harming relations between its member sates and rendering it unfit for anything but achieving the purposes of a wilful majority of 18 countries.<\/p>\n

The vote on recognition of the National Assembly\u2019s representative was really about the de-recognition of the Maduro government\u2019s representative.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0While that may have been achieved within the OAS, it has changed nothing in the international community.\u00a0\u00a0Countries that recognise Maduro or Guaido as President of Venezuela continue to do so.<\/p>\n

Nothing has changed in Venezuela either.\u00a0\u00a0This vote has achieved no new negotiations and no solution to the humanitarian situation.\u00a0\u00a0If anything, it has served only to harden the opposing sides in the political conflict, closing the door to solutions.<\/p>\n

To return now to the 33 and a half members of the OAS.\u00a0\u00a0The national assembly\u2019s representative may be seated in front of the Venezuelan flag, but he cannot speak for the government that is in charge of Venezuela.\u00a0\u00a0A vital test of recognition of a government, in international law and practice, is whether it exercises effective control of the affairs of the country. The National Assembly does not have effective control of Venezuela, and its representative cannot speak, in the OAS, for the\u00a0de facto<\/i>\u00a0government.<\/p>\n

There is a further question regarding the authenticity of the representative\u2019s credentials which appear to have been overlooked, deliberately or otherwise by the OAS Secretariat.<\/p>\n

The National Assembly nominated a \u201cSpecial\u201d representative to the OAS, but there is no such category of representation.\u00a0\u00a0Further, as pointed out in the meeting by the Ambassador of Guyana, Riyad Insanally, the letter to the Secretary-General from Mr. Guaido, signed as \u201cInterim President of Venezuela\u201d,\u00a0\u00a0designating the \u201cPermanent\u201d representative, was dated January 22, 2019.\u00a0\u00a0But his proclamation as \u201cInterim President\u201d took place on January 23, 2019.\u00a0\u00a0In other circumstances, these discrepancies would not have been accepted.<\/p>\n

The OAS is now in many ways a sadly compromised organisation.\u00a0\u00a0The fight on April 9, 2019 to sell or save its soul defines it now and can limit its effectiveness in the future.<\/p>\n

Why should we care?\u00a0\u00a0Because it is the only hemispheric organisation in which all countries (except Cuba) sit, and which had the mandate and the opportunity to keep the region peaceful and to pursue cooperation that could make a difference to the lives of all its people.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0All that is now corrupted.<\/p>\n

Responses and previous commentaries:\u00a0www.sirronaldsanders.com<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

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