Colombian Laura Gil, elected new Assistant Secretary General of the OAS

Colombian diplomat and political scientist Laura Gil will be the next Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), after having imposed herself this Monday in the vote held at the extraordinary general assembly of the institution at its headquarters in Washington. Gil will be the first woman to hold the position of number two of the inter-American organization in its more than seventy years of history.

The Organization of American States (OAS) has elected Colombian diplomat Laura Gil as Assistant Secretary General this Monday in Washington, the first time that this position falls to a woman.

Laura Gil Savastano, the Colombian diplomat of Uruguayan origin elected this Monday as Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), is an internationalist committed to the causes of feminism, human rights and the fight against drugs. EFE The diplomat, who will assume as number two of the OAS next July and will be the first woman in office, was born in Uruguay but educated in the United States and arrived in Colombia …

DOBLE LLAVE – Colombian diplomat Laura Gil was elected Monday as Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), becoming the first woman to hold the second highest position in the body. Gil, who competed with Peruvian Ana María Sánchez and Guatemalan Claudia Escobar, was elected in a second round of voting, obtaining the support of 19 member states, thus reaching an absolute majority. The Colombian woman will assume th…

With 19 votes from the 34 eligible countries, Laura Gil became the first woman to hold the post of Assistant Secretary General of the OAS This Monday, the Organization of American States (OAS) elected Colombian diplomat Laura Gil as Assistant Secretary General, being the first time that a woman holds this position in the body created in 1948. Therefore, in case of absence or imposibility, Gil could assume the functions, succeeding Nestor Méndez,…

Although in the first round Gil recorded 13 votes in favour, in the second round he managed to reach the required minimum of 19 votes for