Fact Sheets

Inter-American Convention on Transparency in Conventional Weapons Acquisitions, April 9, 2002

State Department on the Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms and Other Related Materials, February 26, 2002

State Department on the Inter-American Convention of Transparency in Conventional Weapons Acquisitions, November 27, 2001

State Department on the Concise Guide to the Inter-American Convention, November 27, 2001

State Department on References to Security in the Quebec Summit Documents, November 27, 2001

State Department on OAS Committee on Hemispheric Security, July 25, 2001

State Department on 1998 Conference on CSBMs, El Salvador, July 25, 2001

References to Security in the Santiago Summit Documents, July 25, 2001

State Department Fact Sheet on OAS Committee on Hemispheric Security, June 26, 2000

State Department Fact Sheet on Inter-American Convention on Transparency in Conventional Weapons Acquisitions, Guatemala 1999

State Department Fact Sheet on List of Confidence and Security Building Measures in Latin America, Santiago 1995

State Department Fact Sheet on Central American Security Commission Esquilpulas Peace Agreement, August 1987

Regional Documents

United States - Annual Defense Department Reports

Presidential Declaration of Pochomil, March 30, 2001

Fourth Conference of Ministers of the Americas: Declaration of Manaus, October 2000

SG 240: Transmittal from the Permanent Mission of Argentina to the OAS, June 30, 2000

Communique from the 23rd Presidential Summit Meeting of MERCOSUR, June 30, 2000

Joint Communique of the Presidents for the MERCOSUR countries, Bolivia and Chile, June 30, 2000

Charter of Buenos Aires on Social Commitment in MERCOSUR, Bolivia and Chile, June 30, 2000

Communique and MOU to Establish CSBMs and Reduce Tensions in the Caribbean Sea, March 10, 2000

OAS Political Declaration of MERCOSUR, Bolivia, and Chile as a Zone of Peace, signed in Argentina, July 1999

OAS Resolution #1623 on CSBMs in the Americas, June 1999

Inter-American Convention on Transparency in Conventional Weapons Acquisitions, signed in Guatemala, June 1999

Joint Presidential Declaration Between Argentina and Chile on Confidence and Security Building, February 16, 1999

Third Conference of Ministers of Defense of the Americas: Declaration of Cartagena, November 1998

OAS Resolution #1566 on CSBMs in the Americas, June 1998

OAS Declaration of San Salvador, El Salvador 1998

Uruguay - Bases for a Policy of National Defense 1998 (Spanish, only)

Declaration Not to Procure Strategic High Tech Weapons, WMD, November 6, 1997

OAS Resolution #1494 on CSBMs in the Americas, June 1997

OAS Resolution #1495 on Second Regional Conference, June 1997

Second Conference of Ministers of Defense of the Americas: Declaration of Bariloche, October 1996

Brazil - National Defense Policy 1996

OAS Resolution #1409 on CSBMs in the Americas, June 1996

OAS Resolution #1412 on Regional Conference to Follow Up Santiago, June 1996

Framework Treaty on Democratic Security in Central America, February 1996

OAS Declaration of Santiago, signed in Chile November 1995

Canada - White Paper on Defense 1994

The Mendoza Accord, Argentina 1991

Texts

Remarks by Roger Noriega, U.S. Permanent Representative to the OAS to the Preparatory Meeting for the Summit-Mandated Conference on Security, November 6, 2001

Remarks by Ambassador Luis Lauredo, U.S. Permanent Representative to the OAS speaking on CSBMs at the National Defense University on September 11, 2000

Remarks by Brazilian Amb. Valter Pecly Moreira during the Meeting of the Permanent Council, September 5, 2000

Remarks by Ms. Pamela Frazier, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Plans and Policy (Bureau of Political Military Affairs) before the OAS Committee on Hemispheric Security on April 6, 2000

Remarks by Ambassador Luis Lauredo, U.S. Permanent Representative to the OAS before the Special Meeting of the Committee on Hemispheric Security in March 2000

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