4th Summit of The Americas - Overview

Overview

The "Summit of the Americas" is the name for a continuing series of summits bringing together the leaders of North America 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.