In the second article of the Charter explains the aims of the organization:
• To strengthen the peace and security of the continent.
• To promote and consolidate representative democracy, with due respect for the principle of nonintervention.
• To prevent possible causes of difficulties and to ensure the pacific settlement of disputes that may
arise among the member states.
• To provide for common action on the part of those states in the event of aggression.
• To seek the solution of political, judicial, and economic problems that may arise among them.
• To promote, by cooperative action, their economic, social, and cultural development.
• To eradicate extreme poverty, which constitutes an obstacle to the full democratic development of
the peoples of the hemisphere.
• To achieve an effective limitation of conventional weapons that will make it possible to devote the
largest amount of resources to the economic and social development of the member states.