Latin American Integration Association, Spanish Asociación Latinoamericana de

Integración (ALADI),  organization that was established by the Treaty of Montevideo

(August 1980) and became operational in March 1981. Original members were

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay,

and Venezuela. . In 1969 the deadline was extended until 1980, at which time the plan

was scrapped and the new organization, LAIA, created by the Treaty of Montevideo.

Cuba joined in 1999

Objectives

The development of the integration process developed within the framework of the

ALADI aims at promoting the harmonious and balanced socio-economic development of

the region, and its long-term objective is the gradual and progressive establishment of a

Latin-American Common Market.

The ALADI promotes the establishment of an area of economic preferences within the

region, in order to create a Latin-American common market, through three mechanisms:

A Regional Tariff Preference applied to goods from the member countries

compared to tariffs in-force for third countries.

Regional Scope Agreements, those in which all member countries participate.

Partial Scope Agreements, those wherein two or more countries of the area

participate.

The Relatively Less Economically Developed Countries of the region (Bolivia,

Ecuador and Paraguay) benefit from a preferential system, through the lists of markets

opening offered by the countries in favor of the Relatively Less Economically Developed

Countries; special programs of cooperation (business rounds, pre-investment, financing,

technological support); and countervailing measures in favor of the land-locked

countries, the full participation of such countries in the integration process is sought.

The ALADI includes in its legal structure the strongest sub-regional, plurilateral and

bilateral integration agreements arising in growing numbers in the continent. As a result,

the ALADI – as an institutional and legal framework or “umbrella” of the regional

integration- develops actions in order to support and foster these efforts for the

progressive establishment of a common economic space.

• LATIN AMERICA INTEGRATION ASOCIATION

Members

Flag

State Members

Join Date

Population Land Surface Exclusive Economic

Zone

Platform Capital City

República Argentina

Founder

40.117.096 hb

2.780.400 km² 1.084.386 km² 856.346 km² Buenos Aires

Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia

Founder

10.426.160 hb

1.098.581 km² Sucre & La Paz

República Federativa do Brasil

Founder

190.732.694 hb

8.514.877 km² 3.660.955 km² 774.563 km² Brasilia

República de Chile

Founder

17.094.275hb

756.096,3 km² 3.681.989 km² 252.947 km² Santiago de Chile

República de Colombia

Founder

45.656.937 hb

1.141.748 km² 817.816 km² 53.691 km² Bogotá

República de Cuba

1999 11.242.621 hb

110.860 km² 350.751 km² 61.525 km² La Habana

República del Ecuador

Founder

14.306.876 hb

283.561 km² 1.072.533 km² 41.034 km² Quito

Estados Unidos Mexicanos

Founder

112.322.757 hb

1.972.550 km² 3.177.593 km² 419.102 km² Mexico City

República del Paraguay

Founder

7.030.917hb 406.752 km² Asunción

República de Panamá

2011 3.405.813 hb

78.200 km² 335.646 km² 53.404 km² Panama City

República del Perú

Founder

29.885.340hb

1.285.215,6 km²

906.454 km² 82.000 km² Lima

República Oriental del Uruguay

Founder

3.424.595 hb

176.215 km² 142.166 km² 75.327 km² Montevideo

República Bolivariana de Venezuela

Founder

30.102.382 hb

916.445 km² 860.000 km² 98.500 km² Caracas

Total: 521.213.5

63

19.651.873 k

m²

16.214.170 k

m²

2.839.313 k

m²

Organizations (subdivisions)

Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs

The Council of Ministers is the supreme body of the ALADI, and adopts the decisions

for the superior political management of the integration process. It is constituted by the

Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the member countries. Notwithstanding, when one of

such member countries assigns the competence of the integration affairs to a different

Minister or Secretary of State, the member countries may be represented, with full

powers, by the respective Minister or Secretary. It is convened by the Committee of

Representatives, meets and makes decisions with the presence of all the member

countries.

Evaluation and Convergence Conference

It is in charge, among others, of analyzing the functioning of the integration process in

all its aspects, promoting the convergence of the partial scope agreements seeking their

progressive multilateralization, and promoting greater scope actions as regards

economic integration. It is made up of Plenipotentiaries of the member countries.

Committee of Representatives

It is the permanent political body and negotiating forum of the ALADI, where all the

initiatives for the fulfillment of the objectives established by the 1980 Montevideo Treaty

are analyzed and agreed on. It is composed of a Permanent Representative of each

member country with right to one vote and an Alternate Representative. It meets

regularly every 15 days and its Resolutions are adopted by the affirmative vote of two

thirds of the member countries.

General SecretariatIt is the technical body of the ALADI, and it may propose, evaluate, study and manage for the fulfillment of the objectives of the ALADI. It is composed of technical and administrative personnel, and directed by a Secretary-General, who has the support of two Undersecretaries, elected for a three-year period, renewable for the same term.

Secretaries General[edit]

1980–1984   Julio César Schupp (Paraguay)

1984–1987   Juan José Real (Uruguay)

1987–1990   Norberto Bertaina (Argentina)

1990–1993   Jorge Luis Ordóñez (Colombia)

1993–1999   Antônio José de Cerqueira Antunes (Brasil)

2000–2005 Template:Country data Ina Ilham Yunus Baihaqi (Indonesian) [3]

2005–2008   Didier Opertti (Uruguay) [4]

2008–2009   Bernardino Hugo Saguier-Caballero (Paraguay)

2009–2011   José Félix Fernández Estigarribia (Paraguay) [5]

2011–2014   Carlos Álvarez (Argentina)