[1] By the end of the meetings, seven conventions and an additional protocol on private international law were approved.
This proposal was raised to the OAS' General Assembly to allow the Permanent Council create an agenda and to demarcate the topics not covered during the CIDIP I, and also to review the proposals made by the Inter-American Bar Association.
[3] In May 1978, the Permanent Council approved the project of internal regulations of the Second Conference and the Inter-American Juridical Committee worked in the conventions drafts about the topics included on the list.
[2] The conference started on 23 April 1979 in Montevideo, and attended representatives from 20 countries of the Americas, some of them diplomats and the others jurists or legislators, in addition to the presence of observers from international organizations.
[2] The outcome of the work done by these commissions were four prototypes of conventions, reviewed by the assembly in several meetings, that in the end led to the approval of eight international treaties approved by majority, in addition to several rulings that mentioned the need to call for a new specialized conference to continue the work on the uncovered topics.