Last modified: 2005-10-08 by rob raeside
Keywords: oei |
Links: FOTW homepage |
search |
disclaimer and copyright |
write us |
mirrors
![[OEI flag]](../images/i/int-oei.gif)
by
Jens Pattke
See also:
The "Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación la Ciencia y
la Cultura" (OEI) in English (Iberoamerican States Organization for Education,
Science and Culture) has 23 members: the 18 independent American Spanish
speaking countries, plus Puerto Rico, Brazil, Spain, Portugal and Equatorial
Guinea. Its goal is to achieve the cooperation in culture, technology and to
improve integration and democracy among its members.
Headquarters are in Madrid.
Yearly from 1991 until now, it organizes the "Cumbre Iberoamericana de Jefes de
Estado y de Gobierno" (in English "Iberoamerican Heads of State and Government
Summit").
The city where it is held changes every year. All the Iberoamerican presidents
plus the Spain and Portugal prime ministers meet together with the King of
Spain.
So 21 Presidents and Prime Ministers plus the King of Spain sign a declaration
at the end of every summit. King Juan Carlos of Spain and Cuba's president Fidel
Castro are the only two attending all the summits from 1991, the other
presidents change in every election.
I think the Summit tries to be a kind of "Hispanic Commonwealth", but this
Summit has no secretariat.
The website of OEI is: http://www.oei.es/index.html
Mario Luis Pienovi, 14 February 2005
The flag shows a white
schematic human figure on the blue/green globe with OEI under on a white sheet.
Knut A. Berg, 15 February 2005