I ANNUAL CONFERENCE
OF MINING MINISTRIES OF THE AMERICAS
(CAMMA 1996)
Santiago,
December 1996
By order of the last Reunion of Mining
Ministries of Latin America, that has taken place in 1995, at the city
of Caracas, Venezuela and previously at Cochabamba, Bolivia, the Ministers,
Vice Ministers, Secretaries, Subsecretaries and Chiefs of Delegations,
gathered in Santiago de Chile, the fifteenth day of the month of May
of 1996, in the I Conference of Mining Ministries of the Americas, organized
by the Mining Ministry of Chile in the headquarters of the Economical
Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL) we formulate the
following declaration:
DECLARATION OF SANTIAGO
WHEREAS:
That mining contributes decisively to
the growth through the generation of foreign currency, fiscal collecting,
creation of new jobs and that it favors the development of economic
decentralization and a better articulation with the development of other
industrial sectors, the herein signers manifest the following:
1 . Our satisfaction for the significant
development that has had the exploration and exploitation of our mining
resources, in the frame of the application of reforms that favor the
growth of investment which manifests by the fact that 58% of the world
total that will be invested in what remains of the century will have
as destination the American continent which is equal to 18.000 million
of dollars.
2. Our disposition to reinforce
the policies and actions directed to intensify the exploration and exploitation
of mineral deposits, and the intracontinental cooperation to modernize
the institutions related to the development of mining. In such sense
we consider necessary to increase the relations between organism in
charge of the management of mining concessions and to intensify the
interchange of experiences between the geological services and other
govermental agencies in charge of mining,
3. Our interest in stimulating the
relations between the enterprises and national and international institutions
with the object of facilitating the capacitacion, the professional and
academic improvement, the scientific-technological research, the transference
of technologies and the protection of the environment in the mining
ambit.
4. The preoccupation for the problems
that face the mining production at small scale, since the operation
of this tasks involve social and environmental aspects.
For such reason the Mining Ministries
of the American continent agree to:
1. Institutionalize the Annual Conference
of Mining Ministries of the Americas, for such they will gather once
a year with the participation of Ministers, State Secretaries, Vice
Minister, Subsecretaries or Delegates ordered by the same.
2. Realice the next Conference of
Mining Ministries of the Americas in the city of Arequipa, Peru in the
month of September of 1997. The Mining Ministry of Peru will accomplish
the Executive Secretary and will consult a previous agenda with the
other Ministries, nevertheless are of the interest of the signers the
following matters: protection of the environment, mining concession
regimes, situation of the preparation of the human resource and scientific-technological
development in mining.
3. Entrust to geological services
the publication of a geological chart of the mineral resources of America,
whose coordination and elaboration of the final document of these services
will be decided in the Iberoamerican Reunion of the same, which will
take place at Santiago de 16 th of May of 1996.
4. We ask the CEPAL the elaboration
of an Annual Report of Mining in America and we urge them to work together
with this instance of Ministries recently created, the Latinamerican
Organism of Mining (OLAMI).
5. We greet with approval the initiatives
adopted by the gremial entrepreneurial organizations and the parliaments
of the respective nations, supporting initiatives of this nature.
6. We will reinforce our intercontinental
cooperation and we call the attention of the official agencies and multilateral
financing organisms to contribute to improve the conditions in which
the small mining exist.
CARLOS MAGARIŅOS
Mining Secretary of the Republic of Argentina
JOSE ANTONIO FLORES
National Mining Subsecretary of Bolivia
RAIMUNDO BRITO
Mining and Energy Minister of Brasil
RON SULLY
Assistant Deputy Minister of Natural Resources of Canada
LUIS ARMANDO GALVIS VALLES
Mining Vice Minister of Colombia
LUIS BERNAL MONTES DE OCA
Ambassador of Costa Rica in Chile
ANTONIO DE LOS REYES BERMUDEZ
Vice Minister of Basic Industry of Cuba
BENJAMIN TELIZKY
Mining Ministry of Chile
SANTIAGO CORDOVEZ NOBOA
Mining Subsecretary of Ecuador
MARIO MARTINEZ GUZMAN
Mining General Director of Guatemala
JOSE RIVERA BANUET
General Director of Mining Promotion and Operations of Mexico
CARLOS ABAUNZA
General Director of Natural Resources of Nicaragua
JUAN DAVID MENDOZA
Mining Vice Minister of Peru
GONZALO ILLARAMENDI
National Director of Mines and Geology of Uruguay
EVANAN ROMERO
Energy and Mining Vice Minister of Venezuela
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