NESTOR MENDEZ TAKES OFFICE FOR SECOND TERM AS OAS ASSISTANT SECRETARY GENERAL

FLASHBACK: His Excellency Sidney Collie (second from right), Bahamas Ambassador to the United States and Permanent Representative to the OAS, was included in the OAS delegation led by OAS Assistant Secretary General Mendez Nestor Mendez (center) on a visit to the National Museum of the American Indian, 4th Street, S.W. & Independence Avenue S.W., on Wednesday, August 8, 2018. The OAS celebrated the First Inter-American Week for Indigenous Peoples with a series of activities August 6 – 10, 2018.

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 15, 2020 — The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) will hold a virtual special meeting on Friday, July 17, beginning at 10:30 a.m. “to swear in the Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Ambassador Nestor Mendez for the 2020-2025 period.

Announcing this on its website, the OAS noted that the “meeting will be broadcast live — with interpretation in Spanish, English, French and Portuguese — on the OAS Website, Facebook and YouTube.”

Ambassador Mendez was first elected OAS Assistant Secretary General for the 2015-2020 period in March of 2015. Prior to this, he was Permanent Representative of Belize to the OAS and Ambassador of Belize to the United States from June 2008.