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PAN AMERICAN UNION[1]

  • Resolution dated August 7, 1906, adopted by the Third International American Conference at Rio de Janeiro[2]
  • Amended by resolution of August 11, 1910,[3] of the Fourth International American Conference, as amended
  • Termination: Provisions contrary to the resolution of August 11, 1910,[3] of the Fourth International American Conference repealed; became obsolete December 13, 1951, upon entry into force of the Charter of the Organization of American States of April 30, 1948[4]

Report of the Delegates of the United States to the Third International Conference of American States, Held at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 21 to August 26, 1906 (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1907), p. 99; Senate document 365, 59th Congress, 2d session

Reorganization of the Bureau of the American Republics

The undersigned, Delegates of the Republics represented in the Third International American Conference, duly authorized by their Governments, have approved the following Resolution:

The Third International American Conference resolves:

Art. 1. To continue the International Union of the American Republics, created by the First Conference,[5] and confirmed by the Second.[6]

The purposes of the International Bureau of the American Republics, which will represent said Union, are the following:

1. To compile and distribute commercial information and prepare commercial reports;

2. To compile and classify information respecting the Treaties and Conventions between the American Republics, and between the latter and non-American States;


  1. For an explanation of the various names of the Union, see footnote 1, ante, p. 129.
  2. Although dated Aug. 7, 1906, the resolution was not adopted by the Conference until Aug. 13.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Post, p. 732.
  4. 2 UST 2394; TIAS 2361.
  5. Ante, p. 129.
  6. Ante, p. 344.
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