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Chile, Mexico, El Salvador seek to advance date
for OAS election
Chile, Mexico and El Salvador have proposed
that the election of the next secretary general of the Organization of
American States (OAS) take place on March 30.
The three countries, which aspire to occupy the OAS post, jointly
requested the Permanent Council of the hemispheric organization to speed
up the extraordinary session of foreign ministers to define who will be
the next secretary general.
The candidates are Chilean Interior Minister Jose Insulza, Mexican
Foreign Minister Luis Derbez, and former Salvadorean President Francisco
Flores - the favorite of the United States.
Diplomatic authorities cited Friday by local daily La Tercera, said that
the joint petition for the extraordinary session was putforth through a
letter signed by the ambassadors to OAS of the three countries.
The sources considered that by the day of the voting a quorum of 23 of
the 34 country members will be needed.
The OAS, based in Washington, the United States, lost its secretary
general on Oct. 8, after the resignation of former Costa Rican president
Miguel A. Rodriguez, who was arrested in his country because of his
implication in a corruption case.
The government of Chile wished in principle that the election of the new
OAS secretary general took place in April, in order to reach first a
common position among the Caribbean countries in favor of Insulza.
The OAS is composed of all of the countries in the Western Hemisphere
except Cuba, which was expelled in 1962 due to differences with the
United States.
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