Foreign Ministers of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) met in Ecuador on Friday to mark the coming into force of the UNASUR Constitutive Treaty and discuss the appointment of a Secretary General.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a press release, said the Treaty was signed in Brazil in May 2008 and required nine ratifications to come into force.
In a “highly celebratory atmosphere” in Quito Ecuador last Friday, President of the Republic of Ecuador Raphael Correa Delgado also laid the first stone for the permanent headquarters of UNASUR in the city of Mitad Del Mundo.
The headquarters will be named after the first