| A Trade Fair (Trade Show or Expo) is an exhibition organized so that companies in a specific industry can showcase and demonstrate their latest products, service, study activities of rivals and examine recent market trends and opportunities. In contrast to consumer fairs, only some trade fairs are open to the public, while others can only be attended by company representatives (members of the trade, e.g. professionals) and members of the press, therefore trade shows are classified as either "Public" or "Trade Only". They are held on a continuing basis in virtually all markets and normally attract companies from around the globe. |
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Central/South America Trade Fairs (Trade Shows - Expos) |
Union of South American Nations / Unión de Naciones Suramericanas (UNASUR) |
 The Union of South American Nations is an intergovernmental union integrating two existing customs unions: Mercosur and the Andean Community of Nations, as part of a continuing process of South American integration. It is modelled on the European Union.
The UNASUR Constitutive Treaty was signed on May 23, 2008, at the Third Summit of Heads of State, held in Brasília, Brazil. According to the Constitutive Treaty, the Union's headquarters will be located in Quito, Ecuador. The South American Parliament will be located in Cochabamba, Bolivia, while its bank, the Bank of the South/Banco del Sur, will be located in Caracas, Venezuela. The Union's former designation, the South American Community of Nations/Comunidad de Naciones Suramericanas (CSN), was dropped at the First South American Energy Summit on April 16, 2007.
On 4 May, 2010, at an extraordinary heads of state summit held in Campana (75 km north of Buenos Aires), former Argentine President Néstor Kirchner was unanimously elected the first Secretary-general of UNASUR for a two-year term, providing Unasur with a defined political leadership on the global stage. This new office was conceived as a first step towards the establishment of a permanent bureucratic body for the supranational union, eventually superseding Mercosur and CAN political bodies. However the Secretariat headquarters were originally planned to be located at Quito, Ecuador, it was reported that it will probably start operating at Buenos Aires, Argentina.
UNASUR
www.pptunasur.com |
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