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OEA/Ser.W/IV

CEPCIDI/doc.862/08 rev. 1

8 September 2008

Original: English

LIST OF OBSERVERS AND SPECIAL GUESTS

FOR THEFOURTH INTER-AMERICAN MEETING OF MINISTERS

OF CULTURE AND HIGHEST APPROPRIATE AUTHORITIES

(Approved at the meeting held on September 4, 2008)

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LIST OF OBSERVERS AND SPECIAL GUESTS

FOR THEFOURTH INTER-AMERICAN MEETING OF MINISTERS

OF CULTURE AND HIGHEST APPROPRIATE AUTHORITIES

(Approved at the meeting held on September 4, 2008)

The Rules of Procedure of CIDI govern the participation in the sectoral ministerial meetings.

Organs and Agencies of the Inter-American System

Article 19of the Rules of Procedure of the CIDI

“The representatives of the organs and agencies of the inter-American system may attend the meetings of CIDI with the right to speak.”

Permanent Observers

Article 20 of the Rules of Procedure of the CIDI

“Permanent observers to the Organization, or their respective alternates, as the case may be, may attend the meetings of CIDI and of its committees. Permanent observers may also speak at meetings when it is so decided by the corresponding Chair”

Other Observers

Article 21 of the Rules of Procedure of the CIDI

Observers to the meetings of CIDI may also be sent by:

1.Governments of the member states of the United Nations or its specialized agencies that have expressed an interest in attending, subject to prior authorization by CEPCIDI;

2.Inter-American governmental entities and agencies of a regional or subregional nature that are not included among the organs and agencies of the Organization, subject to prior authorization by CEPCIDI;

3.Specialized agencies related to the United Nations or other international organizations, when so provided in their current agreements with the Organization or, in the absence of such agreements, subject to prior authorization by CEPCIDI.

The observers referred to in this article may speak in the meetings of CIDI or its committees when invited to do so by the respective Chair.

For the purpose of this article, the Secretary General of the Organization will send the corresponding communications.

Entities under Other Observers may include:

-United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

-United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

-Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

-World Trade Organization (WTO)

-UNESCO Institute for Statistics

-World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

-World Bank

-Caribbean Community Secretariat (CARICOM)

-Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF)

-Convenio Andres Bello (CAB)

-Andean Community (CAN)

-Latin American Economic System (SELA)

-Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (OEI)

-Sistema de Integración Centroamericana (SICA)

-United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

-Council of Europe

-Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Special Guests

Article 22 of the Rules of Procedure of the CIDI

“Subject to prior authorization by CEPCIDI and with the consent of the government of the host country, national or international governmental organizations or entities and persons of recognized standing in the matters to be considered may attend the meetings of CIDI as special guests, provided they express an interest in doing so.

The special guests referred to in this article may speak in the meetings of CIDI when invited to do so by the respective Chair.

Requests to attend the meetings of CIDI as special guests shall be presented to the General Secretariat of the Organization at least 15 days prior to the opening of the Meeting of CIDI.

For the purposes of this article, the Secretary General of the Organization will extend the corresponding invitations”.

Entities under Special Guests may include:

-Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional (AECI)

-Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC)

-Inter-American Foundation for Culture and Development

-Coordinadora Educativa y Cultural Centroamericana (CECC)

-International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)

-International Council on Museums (ICOM)

-International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM)

-Museum Association of the Caribbean (MAC)

-Organización del Gran Caribe para los Monumentos y Sitios (CARIMOS)

-International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA)

-Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF)

-Comunidade dos Países de Lengua Portuguesa (CPLP)

-International Network on Cultural Policy (INCP)

-Unión Latina (UL)

-Instituto Italo-Latinomericano (IILA)

-Arts International

-International Association of Art Critics (AICA)

-Caribbean Network of Art Presenters (CARIBNET)

-Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica (CIRMA)

-International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC)

-Copyright Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, inc. (COSAP)

-Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO)

-Instituto Andino de Artes Populares (IADAP)

-Instituto Interamericano de Derechos de Autor (IIDA)

-Instituto Latinoamericano de Museos (ILAM)

-Internacional Network for Cultural Diversity (INCD)

-Americas for the Arts

-Organización Iberoamericana de Derechos de Autor (LATINAUTOR)

-Red Andina de Promotores Culturales (ANDIRED)

-Rede Brasil de Promotores Culturais

-Red Cultural del Mercosur

-Red Iberoamericana del Patrimonio Cultural (REDIPAC)

-La Red de Promotores Culturales de Latinoamérica y el Caribe (Ibercultura)

-Smithsonian Institution

-Observatorio del Caribe Colombiano

-Observatorio de Políticas Urbanas de Bogotá

-Observatorio Cultural Montevideo

-Observatorio Cultural de la Universidad de Buenos Aires

-Observatorio de Industrias Culturales de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires

-Observatorio de Políticas Culturales de Venezuela

-São Paulo Cultural Policy Observatory

-Coalition for Cultural Diversity

-Assembly of First Nations

-Hemispheric Secretariat on Education

-Inter-American Organization for Higher Education Alternatives

-Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)

-Inter-AmericanStudiesCenter, Université Laval

-Human Rights Internet (HRI)

-Inclusion International

-International Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (ICDLA)

-National Council of Women of Canada (NCWC)

-Société de coopération pour le développement international (SOCODEVI)

-Institute of Female Entrepreneurs

-American Association of Museums

-American Folklore Society

-Heritage Preservation

-Indigenous Language Institute

-Council on Library and Information Resources

-National Trust for Historic Preservation

-Motion Picture Association of America

-NationalMuseum of American Indian

-American Anthropological Association

-Society for Ethnomusicology

-APOYO, the Association for the Conservation of the Cultural Patrimony of the Americas