The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) celebrates today, July 3, the 44th anniversary of the signing of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty (ACT).
The Member Countries have joined forces through ACTO to promote sustainable, harmonious and inclusive development in the Amazon Region.
The regional dimension has a key role in the vision and strategies that guide cooperation, insofar as it adds value and convergence to national actions in their Amazonian territories.
In these four decades, the ACT has remained current, allowing the advances of the substantive sustainable development agenda and the various transversal values, such as the centrality of the human being, to be easily incorporated, which confirms the precursor nature of its editors.
The sovereign autonomy of the Member Countries coexists perfectly with a modern and broad cooperation agenda, which allows ACTO to work on all thematic pillars, such as climate change, forests, biodiversity, indigenous peoples, health, among others.
It is about celebrating a legal instrument with a vision that, ultimately, manages to guide sustainable management and the economic development that must be pursued in the Amazon, shared by Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela.
Inspired by the premises and spirit of the ACT, the current board, led by the Secretary-General, Alexandra Moreira, has been working to ACTO becomes an operational institution, prioritizing the implementation of actions on the ground, at the same time that they are the public policies of the Member Countries and the institutions responsible for them have been strengthened, and taking into account the need to reduce asymmetries.
In this way, we from ACTO want to share the joy and commitment to continue working for the Amazon.
