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Organization of Central American States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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At a meeting of foreign ministers of five Central American countries—Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua—held on November 15–17, 1962, and attended also by an observer from Panama, it was provisionally agreed to set up a new Organization of Central American States (ODECA) to supersede the organization of the same name set up in October 1951. The Charter of the new organization, known as the San Salvador Charter, was formally signed at a further meeting of foreign ministers held in Panama City from December 12 to 14, 1962. Panama did not sign the Charter, but provision was made for that state to become a member if it wished to join at a future date. The new Charter was to come into effect when ratified by the five states which had signed it. Following ratification by Costa Rica on March 30, 1965, the Charter entered into force.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: III. Political and Regional Organizations
Information
International Organization , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , Fall 1966 , pp. 863 - 866
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1966

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References

1 Also abbreviated OCAS.

2 Keesing's Contemporary Archives, 02 23–03 2, 1963 (Vol. 14), p. 19264Google Scholar.

3 Engel, Salo, “The New ODECA,” American Journal of International Law, 10 1966 (Vol. 60, No. 4), pp. 806–809CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 For the text of the Charter see Engel, Salo, “The New Charter of the Organization of Central American States,” American Journal of International Law, 01 1964 (Vol. 58, No. 1), pp. 134–138CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5 Permanent Secretariat of Central American Economic Integration Newsletter (hereinafter cited Newsletter), 03 12, 1965 (No. 41), pp. 2–3.Google Scholar

6 Newsletter, 04 12, 1965 (No. 42), pp. 2–4Google Scholar.

7 Fernandez-Shaw, Felix, La Integratión de Centroamérica (Madrid), 1965, p. 1022Google Scholar, cited by Engel, , American Journal of International Law, Vol. 60, No. 4, p. 807Google Scholar.

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9 Ibid., p. 10.

10 Newsletter, 04 12, 1965 (No. 42), p. 5Google Scholar.

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12 Newsletter, 09 12, 1965 (No. 47), pp. 6–7.Google Scholar

13 Newsletter, 11 12, 1965 (No. 49) pp. 14–17Google Scholar. The first meeting of Central American ministers of labor and social welfare was held San Salvador in April 1964, at which time it was agreed to establish the Central American Council on Labor and Social Welfare as an organ ODECA. The first meeting of regional technical commissions on labor and social security was later held in San Salvador.

14 Newsletter, 08 12, 1966 (No. 58), p. 12.Google Scholar