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 | | The Organization of American States is an international organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C Its members are the 35 independent nations of the Americas. |
 | | The notion of closer hemispheric union in the American continent was first put forward by the Liberator Simón Bolívar who, at the 1826 Congress of Panama, proposed creating a league of Latin American republics, with a common military, a mutual defense pact, and a supranational parliamentary assembly. |
 | | Gathered together in Washington, D.C., 18 nations resolved to found the International Union of American Republics, served by a permanent secretariat called the Commercial Bureau of the American Republics (renamed the "International Commercial Bureau" at the Second International Conference in 1901-02). |
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