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	Category:Foreign relations by country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Foreign_relations_by_country (86 words)

	Foreign relations of Panama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Panama is a member of the UN General Assembly and most major UN agencies and has served three terms as a member of the UN Security Council.
		Panama is a member of the Organization of American States and was a founding member of the Rio Group.
		Panama joined its six Central American neighbors at the 1994 Summit of the Americas in signing the Alliance for Sustainable Development known as the Conjunta Centroamerica-USA or CONCAUSA to promote sustainable economic development in the region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Panama (225 words)

	Panama
		Panama was part of Spain's colonies in America until 1821 when it seceded and joined the Gran Colombia of Simón Bolívar.
		Indeed much of Panama's domestic politics and international diplomacy in the 20th century was tied to the Panama Canal.
		Panama is a representative democracy with three branches of government: executive and legislative branches elected by direct vote for 5-year terms, and an independently appointed judiciary.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/panama.html (817 words)

	Panama (09/05)
		Panama occupies the southeastern end of the isthmus forming the land bridge between North and South America.
		The United States froze economic and military assistance to Panama in the summer of 1987 in response to the domestic political crisis in Panama and an attack on the U.S. Embassy.
		The treaties comprise a basic treaty governing the operation and defense of the Canal from October 1, 1979 to December 31, 1999 (Panama Canal Treaty) and a treaty guaranteeing the permanent neutrality of the Canal (Neutrality Treaty).
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2030.htm (3347 words)

	Panama Introduction - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
		Panama became a virtual protectorate of the United States, and the pattern of United States intervention set at independence was to be repeated numerous times throughout the first half of the twentieth century (see The United States Protectorate, ch.
		Panama's failure to establish a democratic form of government was an especially sore point for the United States government because "democratization" in Panama was an American condition for support of the Panama Canal treaties.
		But Panama's foreign debt also soared because of the extensive borrowing from abroad used to finance the expansion in public services, and Panama eventually registered one of the highest per capita debt levels in the world (see Growth and Structure of the Economy; External Debt, ch.
	workmall.com /wfb2001/panama/panama_history_introduction.html (5894 words)

	The EU's relations with Panama - Overview
		It occupies a strategic position in the Americas being the home of the Panama Canal, which was leased to the US upon its opening in 1914 and has played a key role in the economic and political development of the country.
		Political relations between the EU and Panama have been shaped by the San José Dialogue, which was launched at an EU-Central America Ministerial Meeting in Costa Rica in 1984.
		The United States is Panama’s main trading partner, accounting for 46% of its exports and 33.5% of its imports in 2002.
	europa.eu.int /comm/external_relations/panama/intro (733 words)

	Panama next Thailand?
		Panama is one of several countries in the region to express concern that Plan Colombia blurs the line between the drug war and the Colombian civil war.
		Panama is undergoing a budding economic crisis -- provoked partly by the earlier U.S. withdrawal from the canal—and the importance of the State Department's goodwill, on outstanding aid requests to international financial institutions, cannot be underestimated.
		Panama's national police recently announced plans to upgrade its fleet of helicopters and double the number of units along the Darien frontier to deal with the expected flood of refugees.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/27c/484.html (1602 words)

	Panama FOREIGN RELATIONS - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
		Panama's strategic location, the traditional domination of both the economy and the political agenda by the canal, and the strong influence exerted by the United States throughout most of Panama's independent history have combined to magnify the importance of foreign policy in the nation's political life.
		Panama also has tried, with limited success, to appeal to the same Latin American and Third World sentiments that won it support for its efforts to renegotiate the Panama Canal treaties to gain support in subsequent disputes with the United States.
		Although foreign policy concerns were not as dominant in the 1980s as in previous decades, they occupied a high priority for Panama's government and still centered on relations with the United States.
	www.photius.com /countries/panama/government/panama_government_foreign_relations.html (418 words)

	Panama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Relations with the United States soured by the end of the 1980s, particularly as a result of Noriega's role in international drug trade and money-laundering and the absence of free elections in Panama.
		The death of a U.S. Marine in Panama, and harassment of U.S. citizens in Panama, were the reasons given by the United States for its invasion in December 1989, dubbed Operation Just Cause.
		After Noriega's ouster, democratic rule with regular and open elections was reinstated in Panama, leading to an uncensored press and generally peaceful transitions of executive power.
	www.yotor.com /wiki/en/pa/Panama.htm (792 words)

	Panama - FOREIGN ECONOMIC RELATIONS
		In the 1980s, Panama has struggled to adjust to the constraints imposed on its economy by a high external debt.
		Based on a terms of trade index of 100 in 1980, Panama's index stood at 82 in 1985, meaning that it had to export considerably more in order to import the same value of goods it had previously imported.
		In 1985 Panama's imports came from the United States (30.8 percent), Japan (8.9 percent), Mexico (8.2 percent), Venezuela (6.8 percent), and Ecuador (7.2 percent).
	countrystudies.us /panama/49.htm (686 words)

	Mireya's controversial pardons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Cuba promptly broke relations with Panama, Venezuela recalled its ambassador and the University of Panama’s student radicals took to the Transistmica to block traffic and do battle with riot police.
		At their trial the activists’ lawyers claimed that they had slipped into Panama because they had been told that Castro’s chief bodyguard intended to defect, but that it was just a trap, part of which included the planting of the explosives in question by Castro’s agents.
		Panama’s constitution allows for pardons of those convicted of “political” offenses but only commutations of sentences for those found guilty of non-political crimes.
	www.thepanamanews.com /pn/v_10/issue_17/news_01.html (842 words)

	Doing Business in Panama
		Panama's Government actively seeks foreign investment and there are numerous opportunities available in the former Canal Zone properties being transferred to Panamanian jurisdiction in connection with the transfer of the Canal itself in 2000.
		Panama's economy is based primarily on a well-developed services sector that accounts for approximately 73 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
		Services include the Panama Canal, container port activities, flagship registry, banking, insurance, government, and the Colon Free Zone, the largest of its kind in Latin America and second worldwide only to Hong Kong in overall activity.
	www.wtc-no.org /programs/1998/ip-tppan.htm (643 words)

	IRC Bulletin - Number 40: Panama: ATest for U.S.-Latin American Foreign Relations
		Six years and one election after the December 1989 invasion of Panama, the largest U.S. military action since the Vietnam war, there is little public discussion in the United States of the consequences of the invasion and the future of U.S.-Panamanian relations.
		Post-treaty U.S. relations with Panama were dominated by the Reagan administration's intensifying obsession with counterinsurgency and counterrevolution in Central America.
		One foreign ministry official said that the transfer should be postponed given Panama's current lack of capacity to direct a conversion of the military facilities but that a long-term lease is out of the question.
	www.irc-online.org /content/bulletin/bull40.php (4014 words)

	Dodd Statement: Foreign Relations Nomination Hearing for the Ambassadors to Panama, Peru, and Mexico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Linda E. Watt, to be the Ambassador to Panama, Mr.
		You have served with great honor and distinction throughout your career in the foreign service, and I am confident that you possess the skills and the dedication to work effectively as Ambassador to Panama.
		Watt is the right person to be an advocate for United States interests in Panama and I welcome her to the committee today.
	www.senate.gov /member/ct/dodd/general/press/Speeches/107_02/0904.htm (720 words)

	Salon.com News \| Panama wants to stay out of the drug war
		Earlier this month, the U.S. Embassy in Panama issued a statement explaining that the agreement would involve "joint anti-drug maneuvers and training, a program that would assist the security of the United States, and the enforcement of international conventions [against narcotics]." U.S. Ambassador Simon Ferro has expressed impatience and incredulity with the Panamamians' resistance.
		Panama has a long history of what Carlos Lopez Guevara, a former ambassador to the U.S. who helped negotiate the Panama Canal treaty, calls a "regimen de capitulation" with the United States.
		Panama is undergoing a budding economic crisis -- provoked partly by the earlier U.S. withdrawal from the canal -- and the importance of the State Department's goodwill, on outstanding aid requests to international financial institutions, cannot be underestimated.
	archive.salon.com /news/feature/2000/08/30/panama/print.html (1690 words)

	Martín's inaugural address (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Panama is a country operating within the framework of international trade and globalization.
		Panama's standing in the international community has been tarnished, and we fully intend to restore it, which is why I will take the necessary steps toward the reestablishment of diplomatic relations with the Republic of Cuba and the normalization of our relations with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
		Panama will only be able to grow and develop with an honest administration that preaches by setting examples.
	www.thepanamanews.com /pn/v_10/issue_17/news_03.html (3200 words)

	Panama Two Tone - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Panama ladies watch has a domed glass crystal that tells perfect time with your favorite team logo in the background.
		The BROOKS is a woven panama straw with a down-turned 2 1/2" brim...
		Separated by two oceans, the country of Panama enjoys tropical climate, with periods of rain and sunshine...
	tone.fmqg.com /index.php?k=panama-two-tone (1046 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Cuba cuts relations with Panama
		The move was expected after Panama's President Mireya Moscoso pardoned the four, who were being held on charges of forgery and threatening security.
		At a summit in Panama in November 2000, Mr Castro alleged there was a plot to kill him.
		The defendants said they were in Panama to help a Cuban general who had supposedly planned to seek political asylum.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/3603682.stm (408 words)

	IRC \| RightWeb \| Group Watch: Council on Foreign Relations
		The Council on Foreign Relations (COFR) was established in 1921.
		The activities of the Council on Foreign Relations consist primarily of seminars, conferences, and study sessions.
		The Council on Foreign Relations is a prestigious group and membership is considered to be a plum on one's resume.
	rightweb.irc-online.org /groupwatch/cfr.php (1733 words)

	I CIDI REGULAR MEETING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		In this regard, Dr. Ricardo Alberto Arias, Minister of Foreign Relations of Panama, was unanimously elected as Chairman of the Council.
		José Angel Gurría, Secretary of Foreign Relations of Mexico, as Vice Chairman of the Council.
		The Secretary of Foreign Relations of Mexico offered his country as the site for the Second Regular Meeting of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development, which will be held during the first quarter of 1997.
	www.cidi.oas.org /iieng.asp (1668 words)

	Foreign Affairs - Home
		Foreign governments want control of the Internet transferred from an American NGO to an international institution.
		Germany's recent elections have resulted in a changing of the political guard in Berlin, with one of the casualties being the charismatic foreign minister Joschka Fischer.
		Hurricane Katrina's ravages in the Gulf Coast earlier this month have left many foreign policy experts questioning the Department of Homeland Security's capacity to prevent or limit the damages of a large-scale terrorist attack on the United States.
	www.foreignaffairs.org (569 words)

	Microform Sources for United States History
		Records of the Department of State relating to political relations between the United States and Russia and the Soviet Union, 1910-29.
		Files include cable traffic, memoranda of conversations between U.S. and foreign officials, minutes of meetings of U.S. officials, intelligence reports assessing foreign policy issues, internal White House memoranda, agendas and records of top-level conferences.
		Reports from U.S. diplomats in foreign countries on political and military affairs, studies and statistics on socioeconomic matters, interviews and minutes of meetings with foreign government officials, texts of important letters, instructions, cables sent and received, translations from foreign publications and government documents.
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /e/su/hist/usmf/node6.html (3647 words)

	Panama Economy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Indeed much of Panama's domestic politics and international diplomacy in the 20th century were tied to the...
		Panama Economy: Brief overview of economic statistics of Panama
		Panama's dollarised economy rests primarily on a well-developed services sector that accounts for four-fifths of GDP.
	www.fewconomy.com /panamaeconomy.html (231 words)

	NEWSDAY - Front for Apartheid
		The article is a limited hangout that doesn't mention the South African Institute of International Affairs, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, or the Council on Foreign Relations.
		Shultz, Kissinger and Colby were members of the Council on Foreign Relations.
		Jesse Helms, now chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, served as chairman of the editorial advisory board for the foundation's publications.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/2807/lhiff.html (3207 words)

	The Panama Deception: ABC Clio VRGL
		One does not have to agree with the program's thesis, that our invasion of Panama was in order to abrogate the Panama Canal Treaty passed in 1979.
		Footage of civilian bodies lying in Panama City's streets, and the wide swath of destruction done to city neighborhoods makes shambles of the US denials.
		The raw power The Panama Deception generates comes not from any technical crudeness, but from the honesty of emotions, mainly betrayal, captured in the program.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/PanamaDeception.html (452 words)

	Panama FOREIGN ECONOMIC RELATIONS - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
		Panama FOREIGN ECONOMIC RELATIONS - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics, Political System
		With the decline of commodity prices on world markets in the 1980s, the terms of trade (see Glossary) have steadily moved against Panama.
		In 1985 merchandise exports totalled US$414.50 million (excluding reexports from the CFZ) down from US$526.10 million in 1980 (see table 16, Appendix A).
	www.photius.com /countries/panama/economy/panama_economy_foreign_economic_rel~731.html (744 words)

	United States History - Internet Resources - Foreign Relations History - Panama
		Debating the Panama Canal Treaty, 17 August 1977 (audio; debate between Republican Senator Strom Thermond and Lt. Gen.
		U.S. Secretary of State James Baker defends U.S. Invasion of Panama, 20 December 1989 (audio; justifies attempt to depose Panamanian dictator Antonio Manuel Noriega)
		White House press secretary announces U.S. invasion of Panama, 20 December 1989 (audio; claims U.S. had no other option but to use force)
	www.humanities.mcmaster.ca /ushistory/foreign/latpanama.html (115 words)

	FREE In-depth report - Introduction - Panama
		Issues related to the canal continued to muddy the waters of United States-Panamanian relations in 1988 (see Relations with the United States: The Panama Canal;
		But Panama's foreign debt also soared because of the extensive borrowing from abroad used to finance the expansion in public services, and Panama eventually registered one of the highest per capita debt levels in the world (see Growth and Structure of the Economy;
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	www.exploitz.com /Panama-Introduction-cg.php (5919 words)

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