Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – November 12, 2024 – The 2nd Ordinary Session of the General Assembly of the Organisation of Southern Cooperation, opened today at the Skylight Hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where Member States and Associate Members are reviewing OSC’S work programme during the biennium 2023 to 2024. They are also reviewing the plans for the 2025-2026 biennium.
The General Assembly is the highest governing organ of the OSC that approves the programmatic activities of the organisation, including operational performance, budget and management of the Organisation. It meets every two years. The functions and powers of the General Assembly encompasses a broad range of supervisory, deliberative, elective and financial duties relating to all operational and related matters within the scope of the OSC and the Constitutive Charter.
In his opening remarks, the OSC’s Secretary-General H.E. Manssour Bin Mussallam said, “It has been two intense years of work; the last two years of the OSC were not exclusively about successes, but they were marked by extraordinary achievements. We have had extraordinary success in delivering our programmes and have made remarkable progress under the challenging circumstances of building the secretariat and activating our presence in the Greater South.
Despite these achievements, we recognise the shortcomings, which I believe have only served to strengthen the OSC and will help guide the deliberations of this assembly for the next four years.
In this regard, I am confident in the future trajectory of our collective Organisation, provided that our Members, States and Associates maintain their proactive engagement with the secretariat to achieve the shared vision that unites us in our diversity.”
The next four days will be spent discussing the on having discussing the Secretary-General’s proposals for the next biennium 2025-2026 biennium.
Founded in January 2020, the OSC is an intergovernmental organisation of and by the Greater South. It fosters intellectual, technical, and financial cooperation and solidarity among Member States and Associate Members. The organisation strives to achieve a “Third Way of Development” – a path led by the South, but for the benefit of humanity.
