UNASUR stands for Union of South American Nations, an agreement of twelve countries in the region to strengthen regional integration in Latin America but primarily in South America. Involving the countries of the Andean Community (Bolivia, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador to Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay as members), Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, Venezuela and Chile and Bolivia and associated countries) and including two CARICOM countries Guyana and Suriname. The initiative came in 2004 in Cuzco, Peru, and was taking shape in the meetings of the following years: 2005, Brasilia, Cochabamba 2006, Isla Margarita 2007 until the Treaty establishing in Brasilia in 2008 and was elected as President pro tempore to Michelle Bachelet first and then Rafael Correa.
The issues that have been taken into consideration are:
- political dialogue,
- physical integration;
- the environment;
- energy integration;
- South American financial mechanisms;
- asymmetries,
- promoting social cohesion, social inclusion and social justice, and
- telecommunications.
The Secretary General has not yet been appointed. Buenos Aires will be decided at the meeting of 4 May. And while Nestor Kirchner has proposed, and be proud to me it was an Argentine take the chair, I do not think that's right a former president had almost no foreign policy and even destructive in terms of regional integration.
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