Colombia

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAO

FAO was founded in October 1945 with the objective of raising the nutritional levels and quality life and also of improving agricultural productivity and the situation of the rural population.At present FAO, made up by 180 member States, in addition to CE a member organization, has over 4,300 officials all over the world.The Organization provides a direct assistance for development, gather, reviews and analyze information, furnishes government with assessment on policies and planning and serves as an international forum for the debate on topics related to agriculture and food.FAO actively participates in the fostering of lands and waters, vegetal production, forestry, fishing, economic and social policy, investment, nutrition, food standards, goods and trade. Another of its main functions is to face urgent situations regarding food and agricultural problems as draught, pests, insects and the like.A concrete priority of the Organization is the fostering of the sustainable agricultural and rural development, a strategy at a long run for the conservation and ordering of the natural resources. Its aim is to satisfy the needs of the present and future generations through programs that do not damage the environment and that can be technically appropiate, economically viable and socially accepted.

http://www.fao.org

Group of 24
G-24

The Group of 24 (G-24) was founded on July 15, 1989 during the G-7’s summit meeting in Paris with a view to coordinate financial aid to former Communist countries. The G-24’s member countries and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development are exactly the same. Since its foundation, the G-24 has funneled roughly $10 billion to those countries from the former Eastern Bloc. Actual fund endowments have been subjected to the implementation of democratic and economic reforms by their respective nations.
A much different G-24 has been around since 1977 and it shouldn’t be mixed up with the above-mentioned organization. This other G-24 is made up of African, Asian, South American and Central American nations interested in fostering financial interests of the world’s developing countries. Curiously, on April 1993, G-24’s representatives publicly demonized a huge bailout plan for Russia passed by the other Group of 24.
International Criminal Police Organization
INTERPOL

On June 13, 1956, the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) replaced the International Criminal Police Commission founded in 1923. This organization serves as an information and database center on criminal activities used by law enforcement agencies from 177 countries. Each member nation relies on a national office that receives information from the INTERPOL and dole it out among its local offices and agencies nationwide. INTERPOL keeps a close eye on drug smuggling and money laundering operations. Shortly after World War II, INTERPOL was directly run by the Nazi Party and that situation remained so through the entire war . In 1938, its headquarters were moved from Vienna (Austria) to Berlin (Germany). Today, the headquarters are in Lyon, France

http://www.interpol.int

Latin-American Economic System
ECLA

SELA has actively participated in the efforts to encourage AEC from its very origin, when the officials of the Great Caribbean, including Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela, met to define the constitution and the working program.Most of the members of AEC also belongs to SELA which comprises the whole region of Latin America.One of SELA’s main objective is that of fomenting the regional integration among the Latin American states and the Caribbean.Both SELA and AEC closely collaborate in topics comprising regional and international trade, sustained development and matters of interest in the fields of culture, science and technology.

http://www.sela.org

Latin-American Integration Association
ALADI

The Latin America Association of Integration (ALADI) is a intergovernmental body that is continuing the process started by ALALC in the year 1960, promotes the expansion of the region integration, thus ensuring its economic and social development and has as a final objective the establishment of a common market.It is the largest Latin-American group of integration and is made up by 12 member countries.The 1980 Montevideo Treaty (TM80), a juridical, global, constituent and regulating document of ALADI, was signed on August 12, 1980, thus establishing the following general principles: pluralism in subjects of politics and economics, progressive convergence of partial actions toward the formation of a Latin-American common market, flexibility, differential treatments at the development level of member countries and multiplicity in the implementation of trade instruments.Under its umbrella and for express power granted to its Organs, member countries can—without requiring another legal internal document for internal authorization—pass agreements of diverse nature.ALADI propitiates the establishment of an area of economic preferences in the region with the fianl objective of achieving a Latin American common market.

http://www.aladi.org