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Organization of American States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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The Ninth International Conference of American States convened in Bogotá, Colombia, on March 30, 1948, to consider a seven-topic agenda: 1) reorganization, consolidation, and strengthening of the Inter-American system; 2) regulation of the dependent organs and specialized Inter-American agencies; 3) economic cooperation; 4) recognition of de facto governments; 5) “defense and preservation of democracy in America in face of the possible installation of undemocratic regimes on the continent”; 6) European colonies in America; and 7) development and improvement of inter-American social services.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities III. Regional Organizations
Information
International Organization , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , June 1948 , pp. 381 - 386
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1948

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References

1 Handbook for Delegates to the Ninth International Conference of American States, Bogota, Colombia, March 30, 1948, p. 3–5.

2 For summary of the Rio de Janeiro conference and the treaty, see International Organization, II, p. 143–4; for text of the treaty see ibid., p. 202–6.

3 “Project of Organic Pact of the Inter-American System,” Document CB–10–E, Washington, Pan American Union, 1948Google Scholar. For a general discussion of the inter-American system, with charts of the existing and proposed organization, see Sanders, William, “Sovereignty and Interdependence in the New World: Comments on the Inter-American System,” Department of State Bulletin, XVIII, p. 155–84Google Scholar.

4 New York Times, April 5 and 6, 1948.

5 Ibid., April 16, 1948.

6 For the security region delimited in the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, see International Organization, II, p. 203; for map see Pan American Union Bulletin, LXXXI, 10 1947, p. 540.Google Scholar

7 For departmental organization of the Union, see International Organization, II, p. 174–5.

8 For report to the conference on the specialized organizations, see “Report on Specialized Inter-American Organizations,” Document CB–2–E, Washington, Pan American Union, 1948.

9 For complete text of the treaty, see New York Times, May 3, 1948.

10 For draft text of the treaty and report of the committee, see “Project of Inter-American Peace System,” Document CB–6–E, Washington, Pan American Union, 1948.

11 New York Times, May 1, 1948.

12 For draft text and comments, see “Project of Basic Agreement of Inter-American Economic Cooperation,” Document CB–14–E, Washington, Pan American Union, 1948Google Scholar.

13 New York Times, April 30, 1948.

14 Ibid.

15 For text of the resolution, see ibid.

16 Ibid.

17 Pan American Union Bulletin, LXXXII, p. 163Google Scholar

18 Ibid., p. 228.