The Conference of Defence Ministers of the Americas (CDMA) was created to provide a valuable forum of debate for the countries of the Hemisphere, increasing cooperation in the areas of security and defence issues, as outlined in the Williamsburg Principles.

 The Member States of the CDMA have debated and considered how to support the institutional memory and maintain continuity between Conferences.  At the VIII CDMA in September 2008 the Ministers and their representatives decided in the Declaration of Banff to “explore the areas of support and the alternatives for implementing this support to immediately strengthen the institutional memory of the CDMA”.

This archival website, based on the website produced by the Canadian CDMA Executive Secretariat for the VIII CDMA, is a Canadian contribution to building up the capacity of the CDMA’s institutional memory.

We hope that this site will allow future hosts, delegates, observers as well as the general public, to be more informed about the CDMA process, by providing easy website access to important key documents, such as the CDMA Declarations and final reports. Finally, we also hope that this site will contribute to the administrative and thematic continuity between Conferences by it ‘lessons-learned’ capacity.