Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization
The ACTO ( Portuguese: Tratado de Organização do Cooperação Amazônica / Spanish: Organización del Tratado de Cooperación Amazónica / English: Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization ( ACTO ) / Dutch: De Organisatie voor van de Overrenkomst Amazonian Samenwwerking ( OOAS ). . ) - tratado is called in Spanish and Portuguese as much as " State Treaty" - is on 2 September 2003 from the Amazon Cooperation Treaty ( Tratado de Cooperación amazonica, TCA) emerged organization of the eight Amazonian countries bordering.
The Amazon Pact was established in 1978 to strengthen the cooperation of the Amazon countries, then enforce primarily with the objective of the respective national sovereignty over the Amazonian territories to international interests. Later, the idea of sustainable development of Amazonia moved increasingly to the forefront of the activities of the Alliance.
With the establishment of ACTO was determined as the permanent headquarters of the Organization Brasília.