5th Summit of The Americas - Overview

Overview

The Summits of the Americas are a continuing series of summits bringing together the leaders of North America, Central America, the Caribbean and South America. The function of these summits is to foster discussion of a variety of issues affecting the western hemisphere. These high-level summit meetings have been organized by a number of multilateral bodies under the aegis of the Organization of American States. In the early 1990s, what were formerly ad hoc summits came to be institutionalized into a regular "Summits of the Americas" conference program.

• December 9–11, 1994 -- 1st Summit of the Americas at Miami in the United States.

• December 7–8, 1996 -- Summit of the Americas on Sustainable Development at Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia.

• April 18–19, 1998 -- 2nd Summit of the Americas at Santiago in Chile.

• April 20–22, 2001 -- 3rd Summit of the Americas, in Quebec City, Canada.

• January 12–13, 2004 -- Monterrey Special Summit of the Americas at Monterrey in Mexico.

• November 4–5, 2005 -- 4th Summit of the Americas at Mar del Plata in Argentina.