Fila de adelante: Guyana (President Donald Ramotar), El Salvador (Presidente Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena), Dominica (Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit), Costa Rica (Presidenta Laura Chinchilla), Colombia (Presidente Juan Manuel Santos), Chile (Presidente Sebastián Piñera Echenique), United States (President Barack Obama), Guatemala (Presidente Otto Pérez Molina), Grenada (Prime Minister Tillman Thomas).

Second row: Paraguay (Presidente Fernando Lugo), Jamaica (Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller), Haïti (Ministre des affaires étrangères Laurent Lamothe), Honduras (Presidente Porfirio Lobo Sosa), México (Presidente Felipe Calderón), Panamá (Presidente Ricardo Martinelli).

Third row: Uruguay (Presidente José Mujica), Suriname (President Desiré Bouterse), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves), República Dominicana (Presidente Leonel Fernández), Saint Kitts and Nevis (Prime Minister Denzil Douglas), Saint Lucia (Prime Minister Kenny Anthony), Trinidad and Tobago (Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar), Venezuela (Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores Nicolás Maduro Moros).

Fourth row: Brasil (Presidenta Dilma Rousseff), Belize (Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega), Bahamas (Deputy Prime Minister Brent Symonette), Antigua and Barbuda (Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer), Argentina (Presidenta Cristina Fernández de Kirchner), Barbados (Prime Minister Freundel Stuart), Bolivia (Presidente Evo Morales), Canada (Prime Minister Stephen Harper).

VI Summit of the Americas Outcomes

Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, April 14 - 15, 2012

The Sixth Summit of the Americas was held on April 14 and 15, 2012, in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, and focused on the role of integration and regional cooperation to achieve greater levels of development and to overcome hemispheric challenges in key areas including poverty and inequalities, citizens security, disasters, and access to technologies.

Mandates arising from the Sixth Summit of the Americas

Speeches: Inaugural

  • Secretary General of the OAS, José Miguel Insulza: EN | ES | FR | PT
  • Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Alicia Bárcena: EN | ES
  • President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos: EN | ES

Speeches: Plenary

  • Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, W Baldwin Spencer: EN | ES
  • Deputy Prime Minister of The Bahamas, T. Brent Symonette: EN | ES
  • Prime Minister of Barbados, Freundel Stuart: EN | ES
  • President of Costa Rica, Laura Chinchilla: EN | ES
  • President of the Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernández: EN | ES
  • Prime Minister of Jamaica, Portia Simpson Miller: EN | ES
  • President of Paraguay, Fernando Lugo: EN | ES
  • President of Peru, Ollanta Humala Tasso: EN | ES
  • Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, Kenny Anthony: EN | ES
  • Prime Minister of St. Kitts & Nevis, Denzil L Douglas: EN | ES
  • Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad-Bissessar: EN | ES
  • President of the United States of America, Barack Obama: EN
  • President of Uruguay, José Alberto Mujica: EN | ES

Closing Statement

  • President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos: EN | ES | FR | PT

Press releases


  • United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development - "Rio+20": EN | ES | FR | PT
  • VI Americas Competitiveness Forum: Innovation for Prosperity: EN | ES | FR | PT
  • Transnational Organized Crime in the Hemisphere: EN | ES | FR | PT
  • International Conference of Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Heads of Specialized National Agencies on the Global Drug Problem: EN | ES | FR | PT
  • Connectivity in the Americas: EN | ES | FR | PT
  • Central American Security Strategy: EN | ES | FR | PT
  • Sixth Summit Website: EN | ES
  • Official Photo of the Sixth Summit: Foto

Previous Summits


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IX Summit

Los Angeles, United States, 2022

VIII Summit of the Americas
VIII Summit

Lima, Peru, 2018.

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VII Summit

Panama City, Panama, 2015

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VI Summit

Cartagena, Colombia, 2012

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V Summit

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 2009

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IV Summit

Mar de Plata, Argentina, 2005

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Extraordinary Summit

Monterrey, Mexico, 2004

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III Summit

Quebec City, Canada, 2001

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II Summit

Santiago, Chile, 1998

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I Summit

Miami, United States, 1994