On March 13, 2014, during its
84th regular session, the Inter-American
Juridical Committee adopted a report with
“Recommendations to the States of the Americas
on Border or Neighboring District Integration”,
document
CJI/doc.433/13 rev.1, adopted through
resolution
CJI/RES. 206 (LXXXIV-O/14).
This report, stemming from a
mandate from the Committee itself, presents
fifty-two recommendations intended to support a
process of integration at borders, ports and
airports with the aim of creating a "Border
Integration Zone". This Zone would be organized
by a coordinated mechanism composed of officials
from institutions of each interested party,
called the Neighborhood Commission.
At the Border Integration
Zone, individuals from the interested parties
would be able to move freely, access public
services (including pensions and health care),
obtain recognition of judgments, serve out their
sentence in their country of origin, and, among
other things, have a common currency.
Similarly, the authorities
could coordinate actions of cooperation in the
fields of communication, transportation,
education (includying the establishment of
educational institutions), and justice in order
to permanently confront crime, terrorism,
trafficking in persons, the smuggling of
cultural assets and banned products, and
money-laundering.
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