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	1985 - The Contadora Group: UNESCO Culture Sector (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		At the end of 1996 the Group of Eight (G8) and the MPCC (mechanism for consultation and 'concertation') were set up to continue their role of mediators and peacekeepers.
		In March 1997, the Contadora Group, its supporting group, the United Nations and the OAS came together to administer the peace signed in August by the Central American Presidents at the Esquipulas II summit.
		The Contadora Group has thus proved that there are still peoples in the world who are prepared, against all the odds, to take full responsibility for their fate.
	portal.unesco.org /culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=9374&URL_DO=DO_PRINTPAGE&URL_SECTION=201.html (153 words)

	The Contradora Group And The Central America Crisis
		The Group realizes that Central American nations need to be directed toward democracy by the means of a well calculated process as not all of the nations share the same political structure and all should find a common group between the nations involved and the participation of the people in popular elections.
		In closing, the Group's main goal is the repulsion of arsenals and standing armies of the Central American nations who, in the last years, have received large amounts of military supplies disproportionate to their basic needs, spending large amounts of their deteriorating budgets on the training and equipment of the regular armies.
		This is the main objective of the Contadora Group-- for all of the brother nations of the continent.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1985/SA.htm (2009 words)

	UN Chronicle: Assembly defers action on situation in Central ... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Contadora views: Mexico said the arms race, the foreign military presence and the activities of forces whose aim was the overthrow of legitimately established Governments had hindered regional detente.
		Contadora was working to bring about their repatriation and in the interest of their health, education, employment and security.
		Uruguay said the Contadora Act was a suitable juridical instrument, whose conclusion and signing would make it possible to lay down the fundamental political commitments that world lead to a solution within the framework of the co-operation of all States, both within and outside the region, that were concerned with the region.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:4118338&refid=ip_search (3609 words)

	El Salvador - The Contadora Process (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Contadora negotiating process was initiated in January 1983 at a meeting of the foreign ministers of Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, and Panama on Contadora Island in the Gulf of Panama.
		Although the United States government was not a party to the Contadora negotiations, it was understood that the United States would sign a separate protocol agreeing to the terms of a final treaty in such areas as aid to insurgents, military aid and assistance to Central American governments, and joint military exercises in the region.
		Despite the combined efforts of the core four and the "support group," the Contadora process unofficially came to a halt in June 1986, when the Central American countries still could not resolve their differences sufficiently to permit the signing of a final treaty draft.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-4297.html (714 words)

	Foreign Affairs - Demystifying Contadora - Susan Kaufman Purcell
		Contadora is the code word used to mean the pursuit of peace in Central America through negotiations.
		Contadora refers to both a regional grouping and the negotiating process in which it is engaged.
		The Contadora group was originally created in January 1983, at the initiative of Colombian President Belisario Betancur, as a diplomatic alternative to the conflict escalating in the region.
	www.foreignaffairs.org /19850901faessay8450/susan-kaufman-purcell/demystifying-contadora.html?mode=print (568 words)

	World Court Digest, Vol. 1 (1986 - 1990) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Honduras contends that the Contadora process is a "special procedure" for the purposes of Article II of the Pact, which refers to "such special procedures as, in their [the parties'] opinion, will permit them to arrive at a solution" of the dispute, as an alternative to "the procedures established in the present Treaty".
		As for Honduras, it declared that "the Contadora process has not been abandoned" and that, after the non-signature of the Act of Contadora, the Contadora Group and the Support Group continued their efforts up to the time of the approval of the Esquipulas II Accord.
		The facts show that the Contadora Group regarded its mission as completed, at least so far as the negotiation of any substantive accord is concerned, with the presentation to the Central American States on 6-7 June 1986 of the final and definitive Act of Contadora.
	www.virtual-institute.de /en/wcd/wcd.cfm?302020300100.cfm (1721 words)

	Contadora Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Contadora Group was an initiative launched in the early 1980s by the foreign ministers of Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela to deal with the military conflicts in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala, which were threatening to distablize the entire Central American region.
		The original stimulus for the initiative was a call by the Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Alfonso Garcia Robles, Alva Myrdal and Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme for the Presidents of Colombia, Mexico, Venezeula and Panama to act as mediators in the conflicts.
		The Contadora Act was tentatively approved by the Central American presidents, but did not gain the crucial backing of the United States due to its de facto recognition of the revolutionary government in Nicaragua.
	www.theezine.net /c/contadora-group.html (470 words)

	Honduras from Contadora to Esquipulas
		The Contadora negotiating process (named for the Panamanian island where it was initiated in January 1983) sought to hammer out a solution among the five Central American nations through the mediation of the governments of Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, and Panama.
		Despite the combined efforts of the original "core four" nations and the "support group," the Contadora process unofficially came to a halt during June 1986 when the Central American countries still failed to resolve their differences sufficiently to permit the signing of a final treaty draft.
		After the Contadora process stalled, the regional consensus of opinion seemed to be that a streamlined, strictly Central American peace initiative stood a better chance of success than one that included countries outside the region.
	www.country-studies.com /honduras/from-contadora-to-esquipulas.html (564 words)

	Contadora Group -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The group first met on (Click link for more info and facts about Contadora Island) Contadora Island (Panama) in 1983.
		In September 1983, mediated by the Contadora group, the foreign ministers of the Central American countries adopted a Document of Objectives in (A resort and fishing town on the Gulf of Mexico in northwest Florida) Panama City.
		Moreover, the US succeeded in blocking in the plan any recourse to the (A court established to settle disputes between members of the United Nations) World Court and (An organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security) United Nations as required by international law.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/contadora_group.htm (389 words)

	Monitoring the situation next door
		The stated intention of the group is to support the mediation efforts undertaken by OAS Secretary General Cesar Gaviria.
		In terms of geographical regions, the three Latin States in the Group of Six might be said to represent the major regions as follows Mexico, (Central America) Chile (Andean) Brazil (Southern Cone).
		Carter's proposals seek agreement on an amendment of the constitution which would bring forward the election from 2007 or alternatively that the referendum on Chavez's rule be held on August 19 or soon thereafter, as already provided for in the constitution.
	www.landofsixpeoples.com /news301/ns30129.htm (985 words)

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		Following that meeting, the Contadora countries contacted the five Central American governments, and negotiations eventually began based on three points of understanding: (1) the conflicts had not only political-military but socio-economic roots as well, (2) the crisis was symptomatic of much more than the East-West conflict, and (3) a peaceful solution was the only option.
		The fact that Contadora endured for four years and led to the adoption of several documents that represented a general consensus within the region demonstrated that the countries could sit down at the n egotiating table together and hammer out their differences.
		Although the members of both groups would later be called on to assist in verification and other aspects of implementation, this represented the formal termin ation of the Contadora phase of the Central American peace process.}}}{\fs19\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057 rather, the presidents continued to perceive Contadora as the ultimate solution to their region\rquote s crisis.
	www.ices.lk /publications/esr/articles_jul99/ESR-Oliver.doc (9074 words)

	Bienvenido a Fundación Arias (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Contadora Support Group is the expression of sister states that, having again found the way to democracy, are proclaiming that freedom and democracy are irreplaceable in order to arrive at reconciliation in Central America.
		The document will be sent, for their information, to the nations that form the Contadora Group and the Support Group in recognition of their interest and the important role that they play in the search solutions to the problems of the region.
		In this respect, political groups will have full access to the media, total enjoyment of the right to association and the ability to hold public demonstrations as well as the unrestricted right to communicate orally, in writing, and via television in order to promulgate their ideas.
	www.arias.or.cr /english/discurso_unahora.html (1931 words)

	Panama - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Panama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Noriega's forces were allegedly responsible for up to a dozen political killings between 1983 and 1989.
		Political parties, labour and student unions, and business groups united as the National Civic Crusade to campaign for his removal; demonstrations were suppressed by riot police.
		In July 1987 Noriega successfully resisted calls for his removal, despite the suspension of US military and economic aid.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Panama (1013 words)

	Contadora Group -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
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		The elements in a group have similarities in the electronic configuration of their atoms, and thus they exhibit somewhat related physical and chemical properties.
		The administrative headquarters and principal port in the group is Pangai, which is situated...
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9320238 (741 words)

	National Review: Contadora collapse - Contadora Group, U.S. Central American policy
		Indeed, they have turned Contadora into a magical incantation: Abandon all counterproductive support of the Contras, engage in negotiations with the Sandinistas, and--abracadabra!--pluck peace from the hat of Central America.
		The Administration's only serious difference with the Contadora countries has been its belief--born of experience--that the Sandinistas were unlikely to accept a negotiated settlement in the absence of military pressure from outside.
		The Contadora talks, then being held in Panama City, did not collapse for lack of support from the Reagan Administration nor for lack of effort on the part of the Contadora countries.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_v38/ai_4237311 (360 words)

	Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series/ Colombia / Glossary
		A diplomatic initiative launched by a January 1983 meeting on Contadora Island off the Pacific coast of Panama, by which the "Core Four" mediator countries of Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, and Panama sought to prevent through negotiations a regional conflagration among the Central American states of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica.
		In September 1984, the negotiating process produced a draft treaty, the Contadora Acta, which was judged acceptable by the government of Nicaragua but rejected by the other four Central American states concerned.
		The Contadora process was effectively superseded by direct negotiations among the Central American states.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/cs/colombia/co_glos.html (922 words)

	NPQ
		These four countries, known as the "Contadora Group," have engaged all five Central American countries (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua) in a series of negotiations.
		A fully reciprocal and verifiable treaty encompassing the Contadora objectives would take care of what the Sandinistas claim to be their concerns.
		As the new year starts, the nine Contadora participants are consulting privately about language for a treaty based on the 21 points of the Document of Objectives.
	www.digitalnpq.org /archive/1984_85_fall_winter/what_US.html (934 words)

	Pearl Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pearl Islands (or Archipelago de las Perlas in Spanish) is a group of islands on the Pacific side of Panama, the most notable of which is Contadora Island known for its resorts.
		Contadora was said to be used by the Spanish conquistadors as a stop for taking inventory of booty prior to returning to Spain, hence the name ("contador" means counter or bookkeeper in Spanish).
		The Pearl Islands were featured in the reality TV programs Survivor: Pearl Islands and Survivor: All-Stars.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pearl_Islands (115 words)

	Regional Arms Control Initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean
		This "Contadora process" produced its first tangible agreement in September 1983, when the four Contadora Group and the five Central American governments issued a "Document of Objectives," which identified twenty-one political, security and social-economic goals to be negotiated.
		On September 9, 1983, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Central America and the Contadora Group began negotiations of a document based on the common goals set out in the "Document of Objectives." A draft "Contadora Act for Peace and Cooperation in Central America" was completed in 1984 and revised through 1987.
		The objectives of the meeting were: (1) formal renunciation of all weapons of mass destruction, (2) agreement to ban short/medium range ballistic missiles and new generations of advanced conventional weapons, and (3) elaboration of confidence and security building and transparency measures.
	www.state.gov /t/pm/rls/fs/22054.htm (4041 words)

	International Simón Bolívar Prize: Prizewinners
		The Foreign Ministers of Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela met on the island of Contadora and decided to unite their efforts in the Contadora Act on Peace and Co-operation in Central America.
		In Lima in 1985, Argentina, Brazil, Peru and Uruguay set up groups in support of the Contadora Group advisers, and now meet with them.
		Also in 1985, the Group was awarded the Simón Bolívar Prize in recognition of its idealistic role in inspiring and bringing about change and in embodying inter-American solidarity by giving new impetus to the Liberator's generous Panama project.
	www.unesco.org /culture/prizes/simon_bolivar/html_eng/contadora.shtml (259 words)

	Dáil Éireann - Volume 355 - 29 January, 1985 - Written Answers. - Nicaraguan Elections.
		Ireland as well as its partners of the European Community have consistently expressed their support for the Contadora process as the best opportunity to achieve a political solution to the crisis in Central America.
		There is no provision for countries to seek observer status with the Contadora Group as suggested in the report of the delegation.
		The particular strength of the Contadora Group in seeking to find a solution to the problems of Central America lies in the facts that the Contadora Group consists of close neighbours of the Central American countries and that it can conduct its deliberations on a restricted basis.
	www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie /D/0355/D.0355.198501290021.html (670 words)

	Another hit- from Guyana: Land of Six Peoples
		The Rio Group was established to articulate and assert a distinct Latin American persona and point of view, separate from the USA, often indeed in contradiction to US views.
		Bolstering was necessary as the Contadora process had attracted from the start the strong hostility of the Reagan administration who saw Central America as the theatre surrogate wars between the Super Powers.
		It was those eight states (Contadora and the Support Group) meeting in l986 in Rio de Janeiro (hence the name) which decided to establish themselves as a Permanent Mechanism of Political Consultation and Co-operation.
	www.landofsixpeoples.com /news/ns10822.htm (981 words)

	World Court Digest, Vol. 1 (1986 - 1990) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In this case, the date at which "the opinion of the parties" has to be ascertained for the application of Article II of the Pact is 28 July 1986, the date of filing of the Nicaraguan Application.
		Moreover, the Contadora process in any event is a "pacific procedure" (it can hardly be a warlike procedure), from which it follows that, according to Article IV of the Pact, being a pacific procedure which "has been initiated...
		The Court maintains that it appreciates the importance of this concordance of views between the Parties; nevertheless, it decides that the Contadora process, at any rate in the phase directed towards resolution of the substance of the issues before it, had concluded by 28 July 1986.
	www.virtual-institute.de /de/wcd/wcd.cfm?302020400100.cfm (2304 words)

	Message to the Congress Transmitting a Request for Assistance for the Nicaraguan Democratic Resistance
		Negotiations based on the Contadora Document of Objectives of September 9, 1983, have failed to produce an agreement, and other trade and economic measures have failed to resolve the conflict.
		The Secretary welcomed the good offices of the two Contadora groups to promote national reconciliation as expressed in the Caraballeda message, and offered to resume bilateral talks with Nicaragua simultaneously with the beginning of Sandinista dialogue with the democratic resistance.
		Also, another Contadora negotiating session held February 14 - 15 was inconclusive because of continued Nicaraguan refusal to address the remaining issues to be resolved in the current Contadora draft agreement.
	www.reagan.utexas.edu /archives/speeches/1986/22586c.htm (3396 words)

	Mexican Embassy to the United Kingdom - Press Office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Permanent Mechanism for Political Consultation and Concertation (Rio Group) was founded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in December 1986, in order to consolidate the growth and development of the region, as well as to reaffirm the cultural, geographical and historical identity of the nations of Latin America and the Caribbean.
		The Rio Group was formed from the fusion of the Contadora Group -Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Panama- and the Support Group (Grupo de Apoyo) -Argentina, Brazil, Peru and Uruguay.
		In addition, the group has acquired its own political personality and contributed to strengthening the presence and negotiating potential of the region within the international community.
	www.embamex.co.uk /Prensa/Comunicados/1999/gbr02199.html (331 words)

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		The Contadora Group was created on January 8-9, 1983 in the Panamian island of Contadora, to promote peace in the isthmus.
		Additionally, Contadora was compatible with the Mexican tradition of peaceful resolution to conflicts and with the principle of non-intervention, since it never tried to impose a solution to the Central American countries.
		Even when the Contadora Group was not able in the end to reach a peace agreement in Central America, made evident the impossibility for Mexico to ignore its security environment.
	lacc.fiu.edu /events_outreach/army_war_college/Jorge_Chabat.doc (5034 words)

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