Daily Archives: March 18, 2015

OAS Elected the Ambassador of Belize as the next Assistant Secretary General of the Hemispheric Institution

The General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) today elected the Permanent Representative of Belize, Ambassador Nestor Mendez, as the next Assistant Secretary General of the hemispheric institution.   The election of Ambassador Mendez took place in a vote in which he obtained 24 votes from the member states, compared with 10 received…

OAS Elected Former Foreign Minister of Uruguay Luis Almagro as the Next Secretary General of the Hemispheric Institution

The former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay Luis Almagro was today elected by the member states of the Organization of American States (OAS) as Secretary General for the next five years, during the XLIX Special General Assembly held this morning at the headquarters of the Organization in Washington DC. In his first speech, Almagro…