6-657: The Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB) is the permanent support body to the Pro-Tempore Secretariat in the preparation of Ibero-American Summits . Founded in 2005 in replacement of the Secretariat of Ibero-American Cooperation, its main task is to assume the technical, institutional and administrative management and coordination of the Summits. The creation of the SEGIB was approved in 2003, during
12-554: The Dominican Republic , Ecuador , El Salvador , Guatemala , Honduras , Mexico , Nicaragua , Panama , Paraguay , Peru , Portugal , Spain , Uruguay and Venezuela . Andorra joined in 2004. Equatorial Guinea and the Philippines entered in 2009 as "associate members". Puerto Rico has participated sometimes as an associate member, but as it is not a sovereign country it is not allowed to completely join
18-736: The Spanish - and Portuguese -speaking nations of Europe and the Americas, as members of the Organization of Ibero-American States . The permanent secretariat in preparation of the summits is the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB). The first summit, held in 1991 in Guadalajara , Mexico , was attended by the governments of Argentina , Bolivia , Brazil , Chile , Colombia , Costa Rica , Cuba ,
24-621: The 13th Ibero-American Summit in Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia), with the first Secretary-General appointed later in 2005. The main headquarters are located in Madrid (Spain), while it also has three smaller offices in Mexico City (Mexico), Lima (Peru) and Montevideo (Uruguay). Spain assumes the majority of the financing, contributing around 60% of the budget. Enrique V. Iglesias (2005–2014) and Rebeca Grynspan (2014–2021) are
30-639: The summits. Belize and East Timor have expressed their interest in joining the summits, although they have not been allowed to join for the moment. All these countries were either Spanish or Portuguese colonies (Belize and the Philippines were Spanish before belonged to the United Kingdom and the United States , while East Timor was Portuguese before belonged to Indonesia , respectively). Other former Spanish and Portuguese colonies may join
36-510: The two officials who have served as Secretary-General of the SEGIB. Ibero-American Summit The Ibero-American Summit , formally the Ibero-American Conference of Heads of State and Governments ( Spanish : Cumbres Iberoamericanas de Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno , Portuguese : Cimeiras (or Cúpulas) Ibero-Americanas de Chefes de Estado e de Governo ), is a yearly meeting of the heads of government and state of
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