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Costa Rica gained election as president of the Group of 77 in the United Nations in 1995. That term ended in 1997 with the South-South Conference held in San Jose. Costa Rica occupied a nonpermanent seat in the Security Council from 1997 to 1999 and exercised a leadership role in confronting crises in the Middle East and Africa, as well as in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
The Constitution of Costa Rica states, "For Public Administration purposes, the national territory is divided into provinces, these into cantons and cantons into districts." The country consists of 7 provinces (provincias), 84 cantons (cantones), and 489 districts (distritos). [2]
This is a list of diplomatic missions in Costa Rica. ... Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica (Spanish) This page was last edited on 9 December 2024, at 05: ...
Both Costa Rica and Uruguay share a common history in the fact that both nations were once part of the Spanish Empire.During the Spanish colonial period, Costa Rica was governed from the Viceroyalty of New Spain in Mexico City while Uruguay was then part of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata and administered from Buenos Aires.
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With the establishment of the republic and the declaration of Costa Rica as "free, sovereign and independent republic," the Political Constitution of the Reformed Costa Rica of 1848 was approved on 30 November Of that year, and according to Law No. 36 of 7 December 1848, the denominations of province, canton & district. [3]
A law of 26 June 1914, created a canton by the name of "De Osa". This new entity encompassed much of the national territory of southernmost Costa Rica. Buenos Aires was created on 29 July 1940 by decree 185, segregated from "De Osa". [1] The remaining territorial extension is now Osa canton.
The Latin American Parliament (Parlatino) was created in 1964. Its current mandate is derived from the Treaty of Institutionalization which was ratified on 16 November 1987. Situated in Panama City , Panama , [ 4 ] the Parlatino has 23 member parliaments, each of which sends to it 12 nominated plenipotentiaries .