MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for November 20th 2004
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Saturday, November 20th 2004 - 20:00 UTC
Central America' candidate for OAS Secretariat.
Presidents of Central American countries chose this Friday in San Jose de Costa Rica former Salvadoran head of state Francisco Flores as the region's candidate to head the Organization of American States
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Saturday, November 20th 2004 - 20:00 UTC
Violent street clashes signal APEC summit
Violent protests and clashes with the police marked on Friday the preamble of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum hosted by Chile and which will extend until Sunday with the participation of the leaders of the world's most powerful block, 21 country members that include United Sates, China, Japan, Russia, Indonesia, Canada, Australia, Malaysia, and Mexico among others.
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Saturday, November 20th 2004 - 20:00 UTC
Pacific Rim free trade area “will have to wait”
Chilean president Ricardo Lagos made a strong defence of multilateralism and multilateral organizations, and called for fairer rules in international trade during the opening day this Friday in Santiago of the APEC-CEO summit.
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Saturday, November 20th 2004 - 20:00 UTC
FTAA conditioned to US subsidies elimination.
Mercosur said that there won't be any Free Trade Association of the Americas, FTAA, “until the United States puts an end to subsidies”.
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Saturday, November 20th 2004 - 20:00 UTC
MP's arrived at Stanley.
Three Labour MP's and a Welsh National Assembly Member arrived in the Islands yesterday afternoon. They are accompanied on their week-long visit by London FIGO rep Sukey Cameron.
