PERMANENT COUNCIL OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES
COMMITTEE ON JURIDICAL AND POLITICAL AFFAIRS

OEA/Ser.G
CP/CAJP-1005/95
23 March 1995
Original: English
 

PERMANENT COUNCIL OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES COMMITTEE ON JURIDICAL AND POLITICAL AFFAIRS

Working Group to Study the Possibility of Granting Status to Non-governmental Organizations (NGO's) in the OAS

(Document prepared by the General Secretariat)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

On request of the Working Group of the Permanent Council on Non-Governmental Organizations, the Department of Development and Codification of International Law prepared the following summary concerning the rules which regulate the participation of the ONGs in different conferences convoked by the United Nations.

 

COMPARATIVE CHART ON NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS RIGHTS AT THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCES

UN CONFERENCES

1982-World Assembly
on Aging

 

 

 

 

 NGOs RIGHTS

-Sit as observers
-Make oral statements
 

 

 

 RULES OF PROCEDURE

Rule 58 (A/CONF.113/2)

1. Non-governmental organizations invited to the World Assembly may designate representatives to sit as observers at public meetings of the World Assembly and its Main Committee.

2. Upon the invitation of the presiding officer of the conference body concerned and subject to the approval of that body, such observers, may make oral statements on questions in which they have special competence. 
1982-3rd Conference
on the Law of Sea

 

 

 -Sit as observers
-Make oral
statements
-Submit written
statements

Rule 63 (A/CONF.62/L.1)

1.International non-governmental organizations invited to the Conference may
designate representatives to sit as observers at public meetings of the Conference and its Main Committees

2. Upon the invitation of the President or chairman, as the case may be and subject to the approval of the body concerned, these representatives may make oral statements on
questions within the scope of their activities. 

3. Written statements submitted by these non governmental organizations on subject in which they have a special competence and which are related to the work of the Conference, shall be distributed by the Secretariat in the quantities and in the languages in which the statements were made available.

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