Unasur members Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Peru have already recognised the election results.
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We also worked with the Organisation of American States and the Union of South American Nations (Unasur).
The Union of South American Nations (Unasur) has called an emergency meeting for Thursday to discuss the situation in Venezuela.
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For its part, Brazil has promoted the South American Union (UNASUR), which aims to develop cross-border infrastructure and defence co-operation.
Ecuador requested the meeting, after which representatives from UNASUR member states talked and agreed to meet, the Peruvian ministry said.
This led to Unasur, the Union of South American countries, and a proposed Community of Latin American and Caribbean nations (Celac).
Foreign ministers belonging to the Union of South American Nations, known as UNASUR, traveled to Asuncion to meet with Lugo before the trial.
World Bank data shows that Brazil, the country with the strongest internal market in Latin America, is also the least trade-dependent economy in UNASUR.
As expected, the members of the UNASUR expressed their support for Bolivia's Evo Morales and unanimously condemned the actions of the four provincial governors.
On paper CELAC will try to co-ordinate among trade blocks, such as Mercosur and the Andean Community (but UNASUR is also supposed to do that).
Brazil has not emerged as a vocal proponent of collective financing of regional infrastructure projects that would foster more trade ties between UNASUR member countries.
Paraguay was suspended from regional trade organisation Mercosur and Unasur.
"The nations of UNASUR have the right and the obligation to ensure that, based on technicalities, the legitimacy of democracy is not broken in Paraguay, " Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said.
UNASUR, the putative South American union, has done likewise.
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Although UNASUR has served as an effective forum for dialogue and has helped member countries peacefully resolve a number of diplomatic disputes, the group has had less success in building European-style multinational institutions.
Correa has sought support on the issue from foreign ministers of the the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and the leftist Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), who gathered in Guayaquil, Ecuador, this weekend.
The breakdown of relations was addressed at a meeting of the South American regional group Unasur (Union of South American Nations) on Thursday in Ecuador, but the foreign ministers gathered there were unable to resolve the crisis.
On November 30, 2012 the heads of state from South America gathered in Peru, for a meeting under the banner of UNASUR, an international organization that promotes economic integration and regional dialogue between countries in South America.
Chavez was a driving force in unifying Latin America, creating new regional organizations like the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).
Furthermore, the previous week, at the occasion of the meeting of Health Ministers of UNASUR hosted by Uruguay, Dr Chiriboga requested an extraordinary meeting of the council of Health Ministers to be held in Quito in early 2012 to sign and launch a regional action plan to fight rabies in the Amazonian region.
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