A more flexible FTAA

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Delegates from United States and fifteen other hemispheric countries meeting over the weekend in Virginia have apparently discovered the word “flexibility” which should help push aside fears of failure in the coming Free Trade Association of the Americas, FTAA, and ministerial summit to be held in Miami.

Argentine and Brazilian Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Rafael Bielsa and Celso Amorim described the Virginia meeting as “positive and realistic”, during which there was “a contribution of ideas for the coming agenda” of the Miami encounter November 17/21.

Robert Zoellick US Trade Representative also shared Argentine-Brazilian optimism about Miami saying flexibility had become the crucial word.

“The idea of the meeting was not to reach specific agreements on different products but rather determine the degree of flexibility among country members to keep advancing with FTAA”, said a reliable Brazilian source.

http://www.falkland-malvinas.com/Detalle.asp?NUM=2829

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1. Let's do nothing but say we did something ...

That will look better than what happened in Cancun.

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2. Heard on Democracy Now that one line in the $87 bln that

congress handed over to Bush was for $8.5 million for *security* in Miami.

http://ftaaimc.org/en/2003/11/280.shtml