8/3/2019 2006 Declaration of Cartagena de Indias
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- DECLARATION OF CARTAGENA DE INDIAS -
Meeting in the city of Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) on 5
August 2006, Josep BorrellFontelles, President of the European
Parliament, Julio Palacios Sambrano, President of theCentral
American Parliament, Senator Jorge Pizarro, alternate President of
the LatinAmerican Parliament, and Senator Luis Fernando Duque,
President of the Andean Parliament,
for the purpose of signing this declaration,
Whereas the declaration adopted by the Heads of State and
Government at the Fourth EU-LAC Summit held in Vienna on 11 and 12
May 2006, and, notably, its paragraph 8, mark astep forward at the
highest level in the reinforcement of the parliamentary dimension
of theStrategic Biregional Partnership between the European Union
and Latin America and theCaribbean.,
Whereas this also marks the explicit recognition of the work
since 1974 of the integrationparliaments on both sides of the
Atlantic, in the framework of the biennial
interparliamentaryconferences held since then by the independent
decision of those Parliaments,
Whereas the recognition of the proposal for the creation of the
Euro-Latin AmericanParliamentary Assembly is one of the most
notable achievements of the EU-LAC summit,
Whereas this recognition and encouragement should also be viewed
in the light of theundertakings made and the declarations signed at
the previous summits concerning theobjective of reinforcing the
parliamentary dimension of the Strategic Partnership,
Whereas, in view of all the above, it is now the moment for the
integration parliaments of theEuropean Union and Latin America to
agree on a more detailed proposal for the creation ofthe Assembly,
in line with the decisions of the interparliamentary meetings of
Puebla(Mexico) in March 2004, Lima (Peru) in June 2005 and Bregenz
(Austria) in April 2006, theresolutions of the European Parliament
of 15 November 2001 and 27 April 2006, and theGuatemala Declaration
of 26 June 2006,
Decide:
1. To approve ad referendum the attached draft Constituent Act,
to be signed by thePresidents of the participating Parliaments for
subsequent ratification by the plenary ofthe future Assembly;
2. To approve ad referendum the attached draft provisional Rules
of Procedure, to besubmitted for adoption by the plenary of the
constituent session of the futureAssembly;
3. To convene, accordingly, the constituent session of the
European-Latin AmericanAssembly for 8 and 9 November 2006 at the
European Parliament in Brussels(Belgium); this session shall be
prepared and organised by the Secretariat togetherwith
representatives of the Technical Working Group which will have been
set up at a
prior meeting in So Paulo (Brazil).
