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ABC countries
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ABC countries, or ABC Powers, is a term sometimes used to describe the South American countries of Argentina, Brazil and Chile, which are seen as three of the most powerful and wealthiest countries in South America.
ABC Powers Conference, 1914
This is the first well-known use of the phrase 'ABC Powers'. On May 20, 1914, the ABC Powers met in Niagara Falls, Canada, to mediate diplomatically in order to avoid a state of war between the United States and Mexico over the Veracruz Incident and the Tampico Affair. At the conference, the United States was represented by Frederick W. Lehmann (a former United States Solicitor General) and Joseph Rucker Lamar (an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States).
ABC Pact, 1915
On May 15, 1915, the ABC Powers met again to sign a more formal treaty, designed to foment outer cooperation, nonaggression and the arbitration of disputes. It was formulated to resist American influence in the region and to establish a balance and mechanisms for consultation between the three signatory countries, such as setting up a permanent mediation commission. The official name was the Consultation, Non-Aggression and Arbitration Pact.
Although the treaty did not enter use until it was ratified by Brazil, a great degree of the foreign policy of the three signatories between 1915 to 1930 followed the basis of consultations and mutual initiative which the ABC Pact envisaged. To this end, the name "ABC Pact" is used by the press when the signatory countries co-operate to pursue integration initiatives in South America, conclude official agreements or actions regarding foreign policy, or promote ideologically and politically similar organizations within the region.
See also
Argentina-Brazil relations
Argentina-Chile relations
Mercosur
Union of South American Nations
Andean Community of Nations
Axis of good
References
The resurrection of the ABC countries
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