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Show The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Thursday, September 25, 1997 Ag Treaty Ensures OAS Won’t Wimp Out to Tyrants Action Not Only Sets ship of any nation whose govern- ment has been overthrown by force. It defenderof national prerogative the treatyis an abomination builds on the hemi- “It is unacceptable to give to reLatin Criteria — sphere’s ‘democraciesonly” rule. gional organizations supranationrivaled onlyby thatof the al powersand instrumentsforinIt Redefines Relations whichis European Unionand tookroot in terveningin the internal affairs of KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWS SERVICE the aftermath of the Cold War. “It’s another great step in mak- WASHINGTON — Just decades ago, military leaders with enough guts and guns could burst out of the barracks and into the fense of democracy,” said Harriet Babbitt, the U.S. ambassador to the OAS. palace of a Latin American coun- try, and the world would barely blink, They would dispatch envoys to key embassies and notify the secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), demanding recognition of their new ambassador. This newly minted diplomat more than set criteria. In a land of stubborn sovereignties, it redefines relations: It rules that anarchy in one nation compromises the others, and allows nations to judge their neighbors’ democratic credentials. fore long, he would share in the same droning speeches, tipsy cocktail parties and ineffective tion — the RodneyDangerfieldof international forums — whose dithering during the 1989crisis in Panama, some Latin diplomats camaraderie. That wasthen. The largest diamond ever found in North America is shown by an employeeof a Denver diamond company. It was foundin the Kelsey Lake diamond minein northern Colorado,and is estimated to be worth $250,000. strangerto military coups — does bers of the OAS — the hemi- sphere’s regional forum — butbe- ANYONE’S BEST FRIEND Thetreaty, which wasfirst proposed in 1992 by Argentina — no Andit gives some teeth to the world’s oldest regional organiza- might feel a chill in the airy cham- Shaun Stanley/The Associated Press ing concrete the hemisphere’s de- Today, an unprecedented treaty takes effect that seeks to enshrine representative democracy in the hemisphere. Venezuela recently provided the last needed admit, gave impetus to what they viewedas the inexcusable U.S. invasion to oust Gen. Manuel Anto- nio Noriega. To Mexico, the region's fiercest our states,” the Mexican government complained. Given the OAS’ reputation as a comfyclub for tired diplomats. the executive coup in which he shut down Peru's courts and the Congress. Fu mori saw his ecor id ultimately at risk when ensure Given such regional interde: pendence — andthe absence of US. andSoviet patrons eager to shoreupprox any cost — the with little authority and no troops calculus has changedfor the pow- While OASsuspensionis mere- derstandthat it’s very hardto sustain atotalitarian atits disposal, one is tempted to ask ofa nation’s possible suspension: So what? ly ‘a symbol of ostracism,” Morton Halperin, a former national securityaide in the Clinton White House, asserted that the political and economic effects of banishment are real Asthe hemisphereincreasingly consolidates into trade blocs and cooperative alliances, and econo: mies woo investment capital at unprecedentedrates. theprice of pariah status is potentially great he said Peruvian President Alberto Fu- jimori bowed to that reality in 1992 when he rushed to an OAS meeting in the Bahamas following er-hungry ‘The coup-plotters will now un Moises the Venezuelan- Guatemalan President Jorge Ser rano, whose 1993 imitation of Fu jimori's coup buckled under hemispheric pressure. forcing Serrano into exile With the treaty, that pr essure can only become more acute Na tions of the hemisp! have crossed the Rubicon, said Luigi Einaudi, a senior fellow at the Washington think tank Inter: American Dialogue. for thefirst time they have shownawilling ness to imposesanctions fe vote to amend the OAS charter Cellular Service andactivate the treaty, called the Protocol of Washington. 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