Nov. 23, 2009 -- The Secretary General of the Organization of the American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, and the Permanent Representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the Hemispheric Organization, Ambassador La Celia A. Prince, signed Friday an agreement to establish the basic terms of the OAS Mission in charge of observing the National Referendum to be carried out by this nation on November 25th.
During the ceremony held at the OAS Headquarters in Washington DC, which was also attended by the President of the Permanent Council and Ambassador of Colombia to the OAS, Luis Alfonso Hoyos, Mr. Insulza highlighted the referendum as “a matter of great interest for the region, as it is the first constitutional referendum in the Eastern Caribbean.”
In regard to the OAS work in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the Secretary General said the Organization is involved with technical assistance. “The OAS, through the Technical Cooperation Fund (FEMCIDI) finances part of the work of the Constitutional Review Commission, which in 2002 and 2003 began working on a draft.
We are very happy to be instrumental to that.”
Ambassador Prince said that her Government is “very proud because Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is showing its maturity in seeking to bring to the people their own constitution. We do believe that it is time that we have a document which we can claim to be our own.”
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