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![[UNASUR Flag]](../images/i/int-unasur.gif)
image by Zoltan Horvath, 20 November 2011
The Union of South American Nations, set up on the model of the European
Union, was made official on 23 May 2008, and its flag was unveiled during the
inauguration ceremony. The treaty setting up UNASUR ("Tratado
Constitutivo de la Unión de Naciones Suramericanas") was signed on 23 May 2008
in Brasilia by the heads of state or government of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil,
Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, Uruguay and
Venezuela. The treaty was inspired by the Declarations of Cuzco (8 December
2004), Brasilia (30 September 2005) and Cochabamba (9 December 2006). UNASUR
aims at the cultural, social, economical and political integration of the South
American peoples.
The name of UNASUR in the official languages of the
Union is:
- Spanish: Unión de Naciones Suramericanas;
- Portuguese: Uniăo de Naçőes Sul-Americanas;
- English: Union of
South American Nations;
-
Dutch: Unie van Zuid-Amerikaanse Naties.
A South American Parliament
should be elected and based in Cochabamba, Bolivia, while the headquarters of
the Union will be based in Quito, Ecuador.
http://www.comunidadandina.org/sudamerica.htm UNASUR website
http://www.comunidadandina.org/unasur/tratado_constitutivo.htm Text of the
treaty
Manuel Lebrón, 8 June 2008
The
flag of UNASUR is a navy blue horizontal flag with the logo (in inverted
colors) and no letters in, as seen
here:
(Picture taken during Ecuador's pro tempore Presidency)
An image of the flag is seen
here:
For additional information please see:
UNASUR (official website).
Esteban Rivera, 07 June 2011
![[UNASUR Flag]](../images/i/int-unasur1.gif)
image by Zoltan Horvath, 20 November 2011
Regarding the flag change of UNASUR. I have found two versions in use. One
has a blue field with its new logo, but the name of organization is placed over
the logo on the another one.
Image of simpler version flag at:
http://innovacionmilitar.blogspot.com/2011_05_01_archive.html
Image of version with name at:
http://www.lostiempos.com/diario/actualidad/internacional/20110616/secretaria-mejia-cree-que-unasur-se-esta-posicionando-como-un-nuevo-poder_130158_263087.html
Zoltan Horvath, 20 November 2011
![[UNASUR Flag]](../images/i/int-unasur2.jpg)
image located by Esteban Rivera, 28 September 2019
This variant has the same color scheme as the two previously mentioned items,
except that this time the flag has the organization's inscription on it, below
the logo.
The original image can be seen here (seventh flag from left to
right):
https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/banderas-de-los-pa%C3%ADses-de-unasur-es-una-organizaci%C3%B3n-regional-intergubernamental-que-comprende-pa%C3%ADses-suramericanos-77765585.jpg,
source:
https://es.dreamstime.com/imagen-editorial-banderas-de-los-pa%C3%ADses-de-unasur-es-una-organizaci%C3%B3n-regional-intergubernamental-que-comprende-pa%C3%ADses-suramericanos-image77765585).
This picture is taken outside the main office of the Secretariat of UNASUR, in
Quito, Ecuador.
Esteban Rivera, 28 September 2019
![[Previous Flag of UNASUR]](../images/i/int-unas.gif)
A photograph
taken by Fernando Bizerra Jr (EFE) during the
inauguration ceremony of UNASUR shows President Alan García (Peru) forwarding
the flag of UNASUR to President Michelle Bachelet (Chile), who will act as the
first President pro tempore of UNASUR. The flag is red with a yellow (filled)
map of South America inscribed in a yellow ring.
Ivan Sache, 22 May
2008
This design is an unmistakable successor of the flag of
APRA, the American Popular Revolutionary
Alliance (Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana). On 06 Sep 2000 and 08 Sep
2000, Guillermo Tell Aveledo wrote:
"The APRA, founded in the 1920s in Peru,
was conceived by his founder, Victor Raul Haya de La Torre, as to become a
political party for the Americas, based in our realities and not in foreign
ideologies. Ultimately, while the party was non-communist (and condemned as such
by the Soviet Union), it had socialist ideas. Since Haya de La Torre couldn’t
succeed in making the APRA an all-American party, the action of the core of the
APRA focused on Peru (the APRA and the PAP are
pretty much the same).
At
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_South_America.svg, the ring's
diameter is much smaller than in Ivan's image, and slightly oblong vertically —
definitely a poor depiction, considering the photo showing the official flag,
but then again, still considering the said photo, Ivan's map and ring seem to be
too large. I wonder how does the obverse of this flag looks like, it including
so prominently an irreversible element.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 May 2008
While the UNASUR has not yet adopted an official flag, the closest thing is
the proposal that the Peruvian president submitted on the last meeting of South
American heads of state. All of the presidents in attendance rose and clapped,
signaling their approval. Pending official approval, this is the closest thing
to an official South American flag there is.
Manuel Lebrón, 8 June
2008
![[South Americana Union Flag]](../images/i/int-sau.gif)
image by Blas Delgado Ortiz
This image was based on a image at www.unionsudamericana.net
Field of celestial blue color symbolizes the common sky of South America. The
Southern Cross represents the course and the commitment for common destiny. The
red stars each refer to one of the states of South America. The red color
symbolizes the national passion of each one of these states, that must feed with
their fire the Union - all aligning itself around this common objective.
Blas Delgado Ortiz, 4 July 2002
The pale blue flag shown above is presented as a floating graphic and labelled "our flag"
on a page entitled "Foro para la Proyección
Polítical" (Forum for the Political Project of the South American Union).
Therefore, I assume that the defunct website was more a lobbying project than an
official one and that the flag was a project, too, which might never have
existed in real.
Ivan Sache, 25 May 2008
I believe that this flag for the South American Union (UNASUR) was merely one
personal design out of many that have been individually designed.
Manuel
Lebrón, 8 June 2008
