Welcome to Ambassador Agustín Vázquez Gómez of El Salvador

Permanent Council · Regular meeting
Organization of American States, Washington, D.C.

Ambassador Josué Fiallo, Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic
As Chair of the Permanent Council

Full minutes of the meeting: CP/ACTA 2345/21

Webcast of the full meeting: Spanish audio · original audio

The meeting

Regular meeting · CP/ACTA 2345/21 · Dominican Chair · order of business

Aprobación del orden del día
Bienvenida al Representante Permanente de El Salvador, Embajador Agustín Vásquez Gómez
Conmemoración del “Día Internacional de las Personas de Edad” y la toma de conciencia del abuso y maltrato en la vejez
Informes de Ejecución del Presupuesto del Fondo Regular de la CIDH relativos a 2020 y primer semestre de 2021, e Informe Anual de implementación del Plan Estratégico de la CIDH 2017-2021 correspondiente al primer semestre de 2021
Consideración del “Acuerdo alcanzado por los Estados Miembros en relación con los criterios para la clasificación de mandatos, la plantilla para los nuevos mandatos y los criterios para el uso de la plantilla”
Invitaciones al quincuagésimo primer período ordinario de sesiones de la Asamblea General que requieren autorización del Consejo Permanente (Informe de la Secretaría General y proyecto de resolución)
Aprobación de actas del Consejo Permanente
Otros asuntos

The meeting in the minutes →

Translated from the Spanish original, which is the authoritative text.

Dear colleagues, as the next item, I wish to extend a cordial welcome to the Permanent Council to the new Permanent Representative of El Salvador to the Organization of American States (OAS), Ambassador Agustín Vázquez Gómez, who presented his credentials to the Secretary General on September 29.

Ambassador Vázquez is a military officer by training and a career diplomat, with law studies at the Central American University in El Salvador and at George Washington University, here in the United States of America.

Before his appointment as Permanent Representative to the OAS, Ambassador Vázquez was Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey and, before that, served as Minister Counselor and Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of El Salvador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Permanent Mission to the International Organizations in The Hague.

Ambassador Vázquez knows the Organization very well, since from April 2007 to October 2014 he was Minister Counselor of the Permanent Mission of El Salvador to the OAS, a period in which he held important responsibilities. He was Chair of the Working Group that negotiated the "Declaration of San Salvador on Citizen Security in the Americas"; Chair of the Subcommittee on Partnership for Development Policies of the OAS; Chair of the Working Group to Strengthen the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI); and Vice Chair of the Management Board of the Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development (IACD), to mention only a few.

Ambassador Vázquez, welcome back to the Organization of American States, your former home. We trust that the experience you have accumulated and proven in the work of this Organization will be of great value to all of us.