Front row: México (Presidente Ernesto Zedillo), Canada (Prime Minister Jean Chrétien), Nicaragua (Presidente Arnoldo Alemán Lacayo), Costa Rica (Presidente José María Figueres Olsen), Bahamas (Prime Minister Hubert Alexander Ingraham), United States (President William Clinton), Chile (Presidente Eduardo Frei Ruiz Tagle), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Prime Minister James Fitz-Allen Mitchell), Guatemala (Presidente Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen), Bolivia (Presidente Hugo Banzer Suárez), Jamaica (Prime Minister Percival James Patterson), Colombia (Presidente Ernesto Samper Pizano).

Middle row: Guyana (President Janet Jagan), Antigua and Barbuda (Minister of Commerce Hilroy Humphreys), Ecuador (Presidente Fabián Alarcón), Belize (Prime Minister Manuel Esquivel), Argentina (Presidente Carlos Saúl Menem), Trinidad and Tobago (Prime Minister Basdeo Panday), Haïti (Président René Préval), Barbados (Prime Minister Owen Seymour Arthur), Venezuela (Presidente Rafael Caldera Rodríguez), El Salvador (Presidente Armando Calderón Sol), Grenada (President Keith C. Mitchell).

Back row: Perú (Presidente Alberto Fujimori), Saint Lucia (Minister of External Affairs George Odlum), Honduras (Presidente Carlos Roberto Flores Facussé), Panamá (Presidente Ernesto Pérez Balladares), Saint Kitts and Nevis (Prime Minister Denzil Llewellyn Douglas), Uruguay (Presidente Julio María Sanguinetti), República Dominicana (Presidente Leonel Fernández Reyna), Suriname (President Jules Wijdenbosch), Brasil (Presidente Fernando Henrique Cardoso), Paraguay (Presidente Juan Carlos Wasmosy), Dominica (Prime Minister Edison James).

II Summit of the Americas Outcomes

Santiago de Chile, Chile, April 18 - 19, 1998

The Santiago Summit of the Americas was jointly prepared, discussed and approved by all the Member countries. It is important to emphasize the active participation of sub-regional organizations such as that of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Rio Group.

The negotiations for a Declaration and a Plan of Action were carried out in the SIRG meetings with the support of the OAS, the IDB, the PAHO and ECLAC. Emphasis was given to social policies and essential matters of the Inter-American agenda, such as how to consolidate and improve the quality of democracy. Respect for human rights and the path to a Free Trade Area of the Americas, were also discussed.

The result of these deliberations produced a Declaration and Plan of Action of Santiago which contained 27 initiatives, each reflecting the common concerns of the different countries. The initiatives were grouped into the following subjects:

Preserving and Strengthening Democracy, Justice and Human Rights; Economic Integration and Free Trade; Eradication of Poverty and discrimination.

Documentos

  • Santiago Declaration: EN | ES | FR | PT
  • Plan of Action of the Second Summit of the Americas: EN | ES | FR | PT

Official photo

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