Andean Community

The Andean Engagé

First Andean Peoples

59 54. Andean Zone of Peace

E.g. ANZERTA or the Andean Community.

Andean countries have integrated the Hyogo Framework in the implementation of the Andean strategy approved by Heads of States in July 2004.

Andean Community (General Assembly resolution 52 6)

Workshop in Brazil for MERCOSUR and Andean Community countries

We worry about cocaine coming from the Andean Ridge north.

Recognizing the importance of promoting peace, security and cooperation in the Andean Community for the benefit of the entire human race and, in particular, the peoples of the Andean Community,

Peru, as current President of the Andean community, is promoting this issue.

The Andean Community services regime (Decision 439) contains a commitment to facilitate the free transit and temporary presence of certain individuals, with the Andean Labour Migration Instrument creating a step in this direction.

But more importantly, it was linked in to the Andean notions of sacred geography.

In the Andean region, continued support to sustainable livelihood schemes remains of high importance.

The installation of EMPRETEC was being explored in some Andean, Caribbean and Middle Eastern countries.

In Latin America, the Andean Development Corporation (CAF) offers a unique South South success story.

Aware of the determination of the States members of the Andean Community to preserve their independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, promote peaceful coexistence in the Andean region and develop their relations in conditions of peace, self determination and freedom,

Activities related to rural and renewable energy will gather strength, especially in the Andean group countries.

In the Andean Community, certain regulations concerning transport and financial and telecommunications services are being harmonized.

Bearing in mind the commitment of the States members of the Andean Community to promote political, economic, social and cultural integration and cooperation in order to contribute to the sustainable long term peace, security and balanced and harmonious development of the Andean region,

Stressing that the Andean Zone of Peace represents a continuous and participatory effort of the States members of the Andean Community aimed at promoting growing commonality among Governments, public opinion, political parties and civil society with regard to widely shared objectives and values,

Persuaded of the need to contribute to the maintenance of the Andean Community as a region free of weapons of mass destruction nuclear, chemical, biological and toxin as well as to the definitive eradication of anti personnel mines in the Andean Community,

Special communiqué on support for negotiations between the European Union and Central America and the Andean Community

Special communiqué on support for negotiations between the European Union and Central America and the Andean Community

Coca cultivation in the Andean region steadily decreased, from 221,000 hectares in 2000 to 153,800 hectares in 2003.

The Andean Community has five member countries (see www.comunidadandina.org ingles who.htm) MERCOSUR has four (see www.sice.oas.org trade mrcsr TreatyAsun_e.ASP).

Noting further the conclusions of the global meetings of the members of the Mountain Partnership, held, respectively, in Merano, Italy, in October 2003 and in Cusco, Peru, in October 2004, and the first Andean Meeting of the Andean Initiative, held in San Miguel Tucuman, Argentina, in September 2007,

A regional programme in support of indigenous peoples of the Amazon, funded by IFAD and the Andean Development Confederation, was presented.

In the context of CBTF, a seminar will be held jointly with the secretariat of the Andean Community (Lima, March 2005).

Countries of the Andean region of Latin America had demonstrated some positive recognition of genetic resources as the property of indigenous peoples.

UNODC continued to focus assistance on providing sustainable livelihood schemes to former coca leaf and opium poppy growers in the Andean region.

Special focus will be on efforts to develop and strengthen sustainable livelihood schemes, notably in the Andean countries and the Golden Triangle.

In the Andean countries, the Office has supported generating agro industries with proven markets, producing cash and food crops, agroforestry productive systems and microenterprises.

In the interim, the legal framework for cooperation was prepared and the Andean multinational enterprise, Andesat, was established, comprising 44 companies based in the region.

Several speakers referred to the sustained reduction of the illicit cultivation of coca bush and opium poppy in the Andean subregion and in South East Asia.

The movement of natural persons (MNP) might serve as an example for North North (ANZERTA), South South (CARICOM, the Andean Community) and North South (NAFTA) RTAs.

Several speakers referred to the sustained reduction of the illicit cultivation of coca bush and opium poppy in the Andean subregion and in South East Asia.

But these localized rituals become pan Andean, and these fantastic festivals, like that of the Qoyllur Rit'i, which occurs when the Pleiades reappear in the winter sky.

It was noted that, in the Andean countries, alternative development had not kept pace with the sustained decline in coca bush cultivation due to insufficient financial resources.

It also included two further components pilot programme on capacity building for indigenous leaders in the Andean region, and financial support for the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Alternative development had a vital role to play in avoiding a reversal of the positive trends in the Andean countries, and international cooperation in that context was welcomed.

The Special Rapporteur has also been informed that the Organization of American States will be present during the observation process and that the Andean Community has appointed an observer.

UNIFEM continued to support Member States in the implementation of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) in Africa, the Andean region, the Arab States, the Balkans and the Southern Caucasus.

Country case studies (mainly in Andean and Central American countries) will provide details on countries' characteristics in terms of economic growth, volatility and reaction to economic and financial crises.

2. Calls upon all States to support the States that comprise the Andean Community in promoting the principles and purposes provided for by the Declaration of San Francisco de Quito