Front row: Haïti (Président Jean-Bertrand Aristide), Colombia (Presidente Ernesto Samper), Nicaragua (Presidenta Violeta Chamorro), Jamaica (Prime Minister Percival James Patterson), Costa Rica (Presidente José María Figueres), Honduras (Presidente Carlos Roberto Reina), Ecuador (Presidente Sixto Dúran Ballén), Venezuela (Presidente Rafael Caldera), Guyana (President Cheddi Jagan), United States (President William Clinton), Brasil (Presidente Itamar Franco y Presidente Eleito Fernando Henrique Cardoso), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Prime Minister James Mitchell), Suriname (President Ronald Runaldo Venetiaan), Grenada (Prime Minister Nicholas Brathwaite), Bolivia (Presidente Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada), República Dominicana (Presidente Joaquín Balaguer).

Back row: Canada (Prime Minister Jean Chrétien), Perú (Presidente Alberto Fujimori), Argentina (Presidente Carlos Menem), Bahamas (Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham), México (Presidente Ernesto Zedillo), Trinidad and Tobago (Prime Minister Patrick Manning), Guatemala (Presidente Ramiro de León Carpio), Panamá (Presidente Ernesto Pérez Balladares), El Salvador (Presidente Armando Calderón Sol), Paraguay (Presidente Juan Carlos Wasmosy), Dominica (Prime Minister Mary Eugenia Charles), Belize (Prime Minister Manuel Esquivel), Saint Lucia (Prime Minister John Compton), Antigua and Barbuda (Prime Minister Lester Bird), Barbados (Prime Minister Owen Arthur), Chile (Presidente Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle), Uruguay (Presidente Luis Alberto Lacalle), Saint Kitts and Nevis (Prime Minister Kennedy Simmonds).

I Summit of the Americas Outcomes

Miami, Florida, USA, December 9 - 11, 1994

The First Summit of the Americas was held in Miami, Florida in the United States of America in December of 1994. This Summit produced 59 mandates concentrating on 23 themes.

The Declaration of Principles of this Summit established a pact for development and prosperity based on the preservation and strengthening of the community of democracies of the Americas. The leaders sought to expand prosperity through economic integration; to eradicate poverty and discrimination in the Hemisphere; and to guarantee sustainable development while protecting the environment.

Previous Summits


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IX Summit

Los Angeles, United States, 2022

VIII Summit of the Americas
VIII Summit

Lima, Peru, 2018.

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VII Summit

Panama City, Panama, 2015

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VI Summit

Cartagena, Colombia, 2012

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V Summit

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 2009

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IV Summit

Mar de Plata, Argentina, 2005

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Extraordinary Summit

Monterrey, Mexico, 2004

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III Summit

Quebec City, Canada, 2001

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II Summit

Santiago, Chile, 1998

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I Summit

Miami, United States, 1994