Costa Rica Assumes Chairmanship of OAS
Permanent Council
The Permanent Representative of Costa Rica
to the Organization of American States ( OAS
), Ambassador José Enrique Castillo, today
assumed the chairmanship of the
Organization’s Permanent Council, and
described his new responsibility as a
commitment “to serve, facilitate the
constructive, permanent and fluid dialogue
that our nations know how to conduct and
preserve.”
The diplomat was handed the mallet by
Ambassador Luis Alfonso Hoyos, Permanent
Representative of Colombia to the OAS and
until now the Permanent Council’s Chairman,
who said that during his presidency “all
subjects to be addressed were discussed and
some incorporated in the final agenda of the
OAS,” such as quality evaluation of public
governments and progress achieved in the
Social Charter of the Americas.
The new Chairman said he was committed to be
guided in his work by “the Charter of the
Organization of American States, whose
nature, goals and principles continue to be
fully relevant and whose implementation must
daily be renovated.”
During the same event, Ambassador Gillian
Bristol, the Permanent Representative of
Grenada, assumed the Vice Chair of the
Permanent Council from Ambassador Jorge
Skinner-Klee, Representative of Guatemala.
The ceremony, held in the office of the
President of the Permanent Council at the
Organization’s headquarters in Washington,
D.C., was also attended by José Miguel
Insulza, the OAS Secretary General; Albert
Ramdin, the OAS Assistant Secretary General;
Luis Diego Escalante, the Ambassador of
Costa Rica to the White House; and the
Permanent Representatives to the OAS of
Brazil, the United States and Saint Kitts
and Nevis, as well as officials from the
General Secretariat and Permanent Missions.
The Chairmanship of the Permanent Council is
exercised successively by the head
representatives of Member States, in
alphabetical order of the Member States’
names in Spanish; the Vice Chair is
exercised in the same way, though following
reverse alphabetical order. Both positions
are held for a period of three
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