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We are a Community of four countries
that decided voluntarily to join
together for the purpose of achieving
more rapid, better balanced and more
autonomous development through Andean,
South American and Latin American
integration.
We have planned to move ahead in
deepening an integral integration
process that will contribute effectively
to sustainable and equitable human
development, in order to live well, with
respect for the diversity and
asymmetries that agglutinate the
different visions, models and approaches
and that will converge in the formation
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Promote
the Member Countries’
balanced and harmonious
development under equitable
conditions through integration
and economic and social
cooperation;
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Step-up
their growth and job creation;
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Facilitate
their participation in the
regional integration process,
with a view to the gradual
formation of a Latin American
common market;
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Reduce
the Member Countries’
external vulnerability and
improve their position in
the international economy;
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Reinforce
subregional solidarity and
reduce differences in development
among the Member Countries;
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Seek
the continuing improvement
of the living standards
of the subregion’s
inhabitants.
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With a view
toward moving ahead with the
deepening of an integral
integration process, the
General Secretariat’s Working
Program for 2007
provides for the development of
items in different political,
social, cultural, environmental,
trade and other spheres that
will, inter alia,
contribute to national efforts
to fight poverty, inequality and
social exclusion; recover the
harmony and balance between man
and nature; and make social
participation and spaces for
dialogue with civil society
possible.
The Working Areas
provided for in this program
are:
Programs with
their respective Lines of Action
are planned for each of these
Areas, making it possible to
concentrate institutional action
on concrete efforts that can be
evaluated periodically by the
Secretariat itself and by the
Member Countries.
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creation this year of the Andean
Council of Foreign Ministers,
the Andean Court of Justice and
the Parliament puts almost the
final finishing touches to the
institutional fabric of the Andean
integration process. |
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principle of direct applicability
of Community Decisions, agreements
and legislation and of their supranational
nature are put into practice with
the entry into effect of the Treaty
Creating the Court of Justice.
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Andean countries adopt an open
model of integration governed
by market forces. The process
is highly oriented toward trade
and the results reflect this,
to wit: creation of the free trade
area (1993) and adoption of a
common external tariff (1995).
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incorporation into the institutional
structure of the Andean Council
of Presidents and the Advisory
Council of Foreign Ministers,
together with the conversion of
the Board of the Cartagena Agreement
into a General Secretariat with
not only technical, but also political
functions gives a new political
direction to the integration process
--up until that moment a highly
technically and trade-oriented
movement. |
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integration process is given a
social dimension and the Andean
Presidents (Quirama, 2003) mandate
the establishment of an Integral
Plan for Social Development. |
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| The
development issues present in
the early stages are recovered
for the integration process and
to that end a new Strategic Design
is approved with three key areas
for action. |
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| Latin
American integration is incorporated
into the Andean agenda as a priority
objective in order to make the
Andean Community a space that
links up South America, Central
America and the Caribbean. |
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