I. The slogan for next year’s Summit of the Americas is “Securing Our Citizens’ Future by Promoting Human Prosperity, Energy Security and Environmental Sustainability”. The Summit process is a mechanism designed to promote dialogue, multilateralism and social inclusion, which offers parliamentarians the opportunity to make the voice of civil society heard.
A growing awareness of the global challenges facing our hemisphere leads us to share approaches and values, harmonising initiatives designed to secure progress, prosperity and peace for our nations. Dialogue at the Summits of the Americas contributes to regional governance, but that governance will not become evident if it excludes all government institutions and the participation of stakeholders from the private, non-governmental sphere.
In such a context, legislators play a decisive role, exercising democracy at a multilateral level, strengthening the division of powers and representing their citizens. They translate the demands and needs of society into actions and decisions which, due to the very nature of globalisation, have a growing impact in the field of foreign policy. It is an exercise in pluralism, and in building both consensus and confidence.
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