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To: see clearly now who wrote (190157)	6/26/2006 8:11:33 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Respond to of 281500

While pro-globalization US administration officials have been pushing to pass CAFTA they only barely were able to rally key Republican members of the House to their side who opposed CAFTA on grounds of preserving national sovereignty [7]. The CAFTA battle to defend US national sovereignty from encroachments by unelected and unaccountable UN administrators has been championed by the long-time opponent of the UN, the John Birch Society. en.wikipedia.org Significant milestones in the history of the OAS since the signing of the Charter have included the following: 1959: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights created. 1961: Charter of Punta del Este signed, launching the Alliance for Progress. 1969: American Convention on Human Rights signed (in force since 1978). 1970: OAS General Assembly established as the Organization's supreme decision-making body. 1979: Inter-American Court of Human Rights created. 1991: Adoption of Resolution 1080, which requires the Secretary General to convene the Permanent Council within ten days of a coup d'état in any member country. 1994: First Summit of the Americas (Miami), which resolved to establish a Free Trade Area of the Americas by 2005. 2001: Inter-American Democratic Charter adopted. In the words of Article 1 of the Charter, the goal of the member nations in creating the OAS was "to achieve an order of peace and justice, to promote their solidarity, to strengthen their collaboration, and to defend their sovereignty, their territorial integrity, and their independence." Article 2 then defines eight essential purposes: To strengthen the peace and security of the continent. To promote and consolidate representative democracy, with due respect for the principle of nonintervention. To prevent possible causes of difficulties and to ensure the pacific settlement of disputes that may arise among the member states. To provide for common action on the part of those states in the event of aggression. To seek the solution of political, judical, and economic problems that may arise among them To promote, by cooperative action, their economic, social, and cultural development. To eradicate extreme poverty, which constitutes an obstacle to the full democratic development of the peoples of the hemisphere. To achieve an effective limitation of conventional weapons that will make it possible to devote the largest amount of resources to the economic and social development of the member states. Inter-American Development Bank From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search The Inter-American Development Bank (preferred abbreviation: IDB; but frequently given as IADB), was established and headquartered in Washington, DC in 1959 to support Latin American and Caribbean economic/social development and regional integration by lending mainly to public institutions. The IDB has four official languages. In the other three languages, its official name is: Spanish: Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo. French: Banque Interaméricaine de Développement. Portuguese: Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento. In all three of these languages, the Bank's name is abbreviated to "BID". The Bank is owned by 47 member countries, 21 of which are lenders: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United States. en.wikipedia.org