Front row: Argentina (Presidente Néstor Kirchner), Bahamas (Prime Minister Perry Gladstone Christie), Barbados (Prime Minister Owen Seymour Arthur), Belize (Prime Minister Said Musa), Bolivia (Presidente Carlos Mesa), Brasil (Presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva), Canada (Prime Minister Paul Martin), Colombia (Presidente Alvaro Uribe Velez), Costa Rica (Presidente Abel Pacheco de la Espriella), Chile (Presidente Ricardo Lagos).

Middle row: Paraguay (Presidente Nicanor Duarte Frutos), Panamá (Presidenta Mireya Moscoso), Nicaragua (Presidente Enrique Bolaños Geyer), Jamaica (Prime Minister Percival James Patterson), Haïti (Président Jean-Bertrand Aristide), México (Presidente Vicente Fox Quesada), Honduras (Presidente Ricardo Maduro), United States (President George W. Bush), El Salvador (Presidente Francisco Flores), Ecuador (Presidente Lucio Gutiérrez).

Back row: Guatemala (Presidente Alfonso Antonio Portillo Cabrera), Guyana (Minister of Foreign Affairs Samuel Rudolph Insanally), Grenada (Permanent Representative to the OAS Denis G. Antoine), Perú (Presidente Alejandro Toledo Manrique), República Dominicana (Presidente Hipólito Mejía), Saint Kitts and Nevis (Prime Minister Denzil Douglas), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves), Suriname (President Ronald Runaldo Venetiaan), Uruguay (Presidente Jorge Batlle), Venezuela (Presidente Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías), Saint Lucia (Minister of External Affairs Julian R. Hunte), Trinidad and Tobago (Minister of Foreign Affairs Knowlson Gift).

Extraordinary Summit of the Americas Outcomes

Monterrey, Mexico, January 12 - 13, 2004

Since the Quebec City Summit of 2001, one-third of the countries in the Americas gained new leadership, poverty was on the rise, with 44% of the population in Latin America and the Caribbean living in poverty, and economic growth was staggering.

The Heads of State and Government met in Monterrey, Mexico on January 12-13, 2004 to advance the implementation of measures to combat poverty, promote social development, achieve economic growth with equity, and strengthen governance in our democracies.

The governments signed the Nuevo León Declaration which focused on three areas: Economic Growth with equity to reduce poverty, Social Development, and Democratic Governance, and issued 72 mandates.

Documents

  • Declaration of Nuevo León: EN | EN | FR | PT

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