South American Parliament

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South American Parliament Parlamento Suramericano

Type
Type	Unicameral
Members	99
Meeting place
Villa sudamericana, Cochabamba
Website
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The seat, Cochabamba, is the only thing that has been decided by the treaty.

The South American Parliament is a proposed body of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR). The Constitutive Treaty of Unasur does not list it with the other bodies, and does not give any details on its composition. Article 17 states that the Parliament would be located in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and its creation would be the subject of an additional protocol. A transitory article of the Treaty states how this protocol would be created: members will appoint a "Special Commission" composed of national and regional Members of Parliament who would meet in Cochabamba to draft the protocol to be considered at the Fourth Summit of Unasur leaders. The protocol would lay out how the Parliament would function and be composed.
During such summits the presidents hold meetings on energy, infrastructure, education and social policies, in addition to defining a transitional formula until the full force of the treaty, which must still be approved by legislatures. Foreign ministers are to meet every six months.
The Parliament will have ninety-nine parliamentarians. Each country will delegate up to five parliamentarians, more than the Andean parliament's members, of the Parliament of the Mercosur and of the parliaments of Guyana and Suriname. The presidents of the legislative bodies of each member country of the Unasur will also integrate it.
It will have a routine of consistent operation in two annual meetings: one in June and the second in November, although it will be able to convene in extraordinary form.
The Parliament of the Unasur will have commissions and subcommittees, presidencies and vice-presidencies, secretaries and subsecretaries.
All the pronouncements of the Parliament of the Unasur will be published through an official newspaper that will be created for such ends.
Their attributions and competitions are: to look after the democracy in the region, to establish cooperation relationships among the member countries, to emit declarations and recommendations, to foment the development of the representative democracy and to exercise the political control to the organs and institutions of Unasur.
The South American Parliament also has the task of leading the development and implementation, in coordination with the Bank of the South, of a new single currency that is to be in circulation throughout the region. Thus the Bank of the South, based in Venezuela and sub offices in Buenos Aires and La Paz, in conjunction with the General Secretariat, based in Quito, and now with the South American Parliament, based in Cochabamba, is to seek economic and social well being throughout the continent and to advance the goal of establishing a future "Ciudadano Americano" (American Citizen). Other agreements provide that citizens of the twelve countries will move within the UNASUR space with National Identity Document of each country to be recognized throughout the Union.

[edit] Construction

The Bolivian government has launched the start of construction of the Parliament building with an area of 200 hectares in the Valle Alto area. A specialized military academy located in the same area is to preserve the security of Parliament.

[edit] See also

[show] v t e Union of South American Nations

Member states	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela

Summits	2004 South American Summit 2008 South American Summit 2009 South American Summit 2010 South American Summit 2011 South American Summit 2012 South American Summit

Topics	Cusco Declaration Constitutive Treaty President Pro Tempore Secretary General Bank of the South *South American Parliament* Initiative for Infrastructure Integration of South America Mercosur Andean Community

[hide] v t e Pan-Americanism

Thought and history	Spanish American wars of independence Latin American wars of independence Latin American integration Patria Grande Simón Bolívar José de San Martín

Organizations	Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization Andean Community of Nations Association of Caribbean States Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas Caribbean Community Central American Integration System Community of Latin American and Caribbean States Latin American Integration Association Latin American Economic System Mercosur Organization of American States Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States Organization of Ibero-American States Pacific Alliance Petrocaribe Rio Group Union of South American Nations United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Projects	Andean passport CARICOM Single Market and Economy CARICOM passport CARIPASS Central America-4 Border Control Agreement Central America-4 passport Eastern Caribbean Currency Union Initiative for the Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America Interoceanic Highway SUCRE

Institutions	Corporación Andina de Fomento Bank of the South Caribbean Court of Justice Caribbean Development Bank Inter-American Development Bank Latin American Parliament Mercosur Parliament *South American Parliament*

FTAs	Caribbean Free Trade Association CARIFORUM Economic Partnership Agreements Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement Free Trade Area of the Americas G3 Free Trade Agreement North American Free Trade Agreement

[show] v t e National Legislative Bodies of the Americas

North America *South America*

Sovereign states	Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Bahamas Barbados Belize Bolivia Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago United States Uruguay Venezuela

Dependencies and other territories	Anguilla Aruba Bermuda British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Curaçao Falkland Islands France: French Guiana Guadeloupe Martinique Saint Barthélemy Saint Martin Greenland Montserrat Navassa Island (claimed by the United States and by Haiti) Netherlands: Bonaire Saba Sint Eustatius Puerto Rico Saint Pierre and Miquelon Sint Maarten South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (administered by the United Kingdom, claimed by Argentina) Turks and Caicos Islands US Virgin Islands