Integration Blocs
[7] The twenty-five ACS Member States are Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, and Venezuela. [8] The three Associated States of the ACS are Aruba, France (on behalf of French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Barthélemy, and Saint Martin) and Curação. [9] The six Founding Observers of the ACS are: the CARICOM Secretariat, the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA), the Central American Integration System (SICA), and the Permanent Secretariat of the General Agreement for Central American Economic Integration (SIECA), which were declared Founding Observers of the ACS in 1996, while the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) were admitted in 2000 and 2001 respectively. The ACS Secretariat made special agreements with these organizations, enabling them to participate in the work of the ACS Ministerial Council and Special Committees. [10] The 20 observer countries are: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Korea, Chile, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, Holland, India, Italy, Morocco, Peru, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, United Kingdom, Turkey, and Ukraine.
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