{"id":76231,"date":"2015-05-27T06:32:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T11:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selasite.azurewebsites.net\/former-uruguayan-foreign-minister-luis-almagro-took-office-as-oas-secretary-general\/"},"modified":"2015-05-27T06:32:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T11:32:10","slug":"former-uruguayan-foreign-minister-luis-almagro-took-office-as-oas-secretary-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/former-uruguayan-foreign-minister-luis-almagro-took-office-as-oas-secretary-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Uruguayan Foreign Minister Luis Almagro Took Office as OAS Secretary General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, May 27, 2015.- The former Foreign Minister of Uruguay Luis Almagro Lemes today took office as Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) during a meeting of the Permanent Council at the headquarters of the Organization in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p\/>    The Uruguayan diplomat was elected Secretary General on March 18 with 33 votes in favor, one abstention and no votes against from member states. The Chair of the Permanent Council and Permanent Representative of Trinidad and Tobago to the OAS, Neil Parsan, was in charge of welcoming the new OAS Secretary General during the inauguration.<\/p>\n<p\/>    Secretary General Almagro was elected for a period of five years from May 2015 to May 2020. He is the second Uruguayan to lead the OAS, after Jose Antonio Mora (1956-1968).<\/p>\n<p\/>    He was also preceded in office by Colombians Alberto Lleras Camargo (1948-1954) and Cesar Gaviria Trujillo (1994-2004); Chileans Carlos D\u00e1vila Espinoza (1954-1955) and Jos\u00e9 Miguel Insulza (2005-2015); Ecuador&#8217;s Galo Plaza Lasso (1968-1975); Argentina&#8217;s Alejandro Orfila (1975-1984); Brazilian Jo\u00e3o Clemente Baena Soares (1984-1994); Costa Rica&#8217;s Miguel Angel Rodriguez (2004); and United States citizen Luigi R. Einaudi (interim, 2004-2005).<\/p>\n<p\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Uruguayan Foreign Minister Luis Almagro Took Office as OAS Secretary General<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boletines-regionales"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}