If Ecuador’s proposals to the Organization of American States (OAS) do not pass, the president says he would like to at least see the strengthening of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), and a restructuring of inter-American system for the promotion and protection of human rights.

OAS members with meet on March 22 in Washington to analyze the 8 reforms to the system that Ecuador is proposing which were examined on Monday by delegates of the countries signed onto the Pact of San José.

Ecuador has proposed the OAS move its headquarters to Argentina, equalize the budgets of its different rapporteurships (so that the freedom of expression one doesn’t overshadow the others), and place limits on the functions of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

“If no changes are made, we’ll have to find something new, better, and our own. Thank God the CELAC is being strengthened, and the (Union of South American Nations). Enough with the tutelage; enough with countries, that torture, that don’t sign international treaties, blockading and invading but still financing a commission that controls other states,” said President Rafael Correa during a press conference on Tuesday.

He added that if it’s necessary to build a specifically-Latin American human rights monitoring body, it will be done. ”A group of countries is resolved to do so if current conditions don’t change.”

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