The North–South Summit, officially the International Meeting on Cooperation and Development, was an international

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held in Cancun,

Mexico Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sovereign states, country in the southern portion of North America. It is borders of Mexico, bordered to the north by the United States; to the so ...

from 22 to 23 October 1981. The summit was attended by representatives of 22 countries from 5 continents. It is the only

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summit conference in history.

Participants

The summit was attended by 22 countries from 5 continents. The

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chose not to attend the summit.

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was excluded at the request of the United States.

Proceedings

No official agenda was set for the meeting. The conference was chaired by Mexican President

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attended the summit on one of his first official trips abroad. He spoke about the need to change the terms of trade between industrialized countries and developing countries, and affirmed the will of France to actively contribute to the development of the

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called for the establishment of a

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'', volume 48, numéro 1, p. 106, 1983.

In popular culture

The conference is one of the elements of the 1984 French film '' The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent''. It is also the subject of story arc '' Nuclear Alert'' of the Franco-Belgian comic book series Buck Danny, published in 1983, 1984 and 1986.

References

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Participants

Proceedings

In popular culture

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