ILAIS receives support from the Organization of American States

The Organization of American States (OAS) represented by the Assistant Secretary-General of the OAS Nestor Mendez, published a support note to the Institute for Latin American and Iberian Studies – ILAIS.

“The Organization of American States (OAS) supports the premise that multidisciplinary discourse, research, and training are essential for the academic development of the people of Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. I am therefore pleased as Assistant Secretary-General of the OAS to applaud the official launch of the Institute for Latin American and Iberian Studies (ILAIS) at The Catholic University of America, whose deliverables will help to expand opportunities for the youth of the Americas, broaden their knowledge of the hemisphere, and nurture their leadership potential”, said Nestor Mendez.

The Assistant Secretary-General also declared that the OAS welcomes all such initiatives which ultimately underpin the strengthening of the organization's core pillars of development, security, human rights, and democracy, and which are integral to the broadest development of our hemisphere’s most valuable resource, our people.

The Organization of American States is the world’s oldest regional organization, dating back to the First International Conference of American States, held in Washington, D.C., from October 1889 to April 1890. That meeting approved the establishment of the International Union of American Republics, and the stage was set for the weaving of a web of provisions and institutions that came to be known as the inter-American system, the oldest international institutional system.

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