American Council

  

The American Council is an organ of the Conference of American States (CAS) that sets the political priorities of the bloc, coordinates policies with national governments, reviews legislation from the American Parliament, and oversees common foreign and defense policies of the CAS. It is composed of 15 members known as ministers, each of them appointed by one of the CAS member countries, and is headed by the President of the American Council which is an office that rotates among ministers for six-month terms. Together with the American Parliament it is one of the two components of the legislative process of the CAS and is comparable to the upper house of a national legislature.

American Council

Formation	1966 (1966) (informal) 1996 (1996) (formal)
Type	Principal institution of the Conference of American States
Location	Seattle, Astoria
President	Jean-Luc Michel
Website	council.america.cas

The Council first existed informally as a meeting of heads of state and government since the Conference's founding in 1966 by the Treaty of Seattle. The 1996 Treaty of Lincoln created the formal existence of the American Council as a distinct organization with specifically appointed ministers, not current heads of state and government.

Role

Composition

Current

Member state	Minister	Since	Party
Alaska	Michelle Murkowski	January 20, 2017		UFA
Antigua and Barbuda				SDA
Astoria				SDA
Belize				LDA
Bahamas				LDA
Barbados				LDA
Brazil				UFA
Brazoria				ACC
Central America
Dominica				LDA
Greenland	Olaf Agerholm	March 25, 2023		AN
Grenada				LDA
Guyana
Jamaica				LDA
Manitoba	Jean Luc-Michel	August 20, 2018		ACC
Paraguay				LDA
Patagonia				SDA
São Leopoldo				LDA
Saint Kitts and Nevis				LDA
Saint Lucia				LDA
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines				LDA
Kingdom of Sierra				SDA
Superior	Joseph Falkner	February 24, 2022		ACC
Suriname				LDA
United Provinces				ACC

See also

• American Parliament
• American Court of Justice
• American Secretariat