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  CBC News Indepth: Summit of the Americas 2004
The 34 democratically elected heads of state of the Americas gather to discuss areas of common interest to residents of the hemisphere.
When it began in 1994 under the auspices of the Organization of American States (OAS), the primary goal of the Summit of the Americas process was a free trade agreement linking the countries in the hemisphere (the Free Trade Area of the Americas, or FTAA).
While the declaration of the last summit focussed largely on job creation and democratic governance, there was also talk of creating regional trade agreements that exclude dissenting countries.
www.cbc.ca /news/background/summitofamericas   (699 words)

  
 Global Envision - Civil Society and the Summit of the Americas
The Summit of the Americas began in 1994 in Miami, Florida, when former U.S. President Bill Clinton called all democratically elected heads of state throughout the Western Hemisphere together to discuss issues of common interest.
The Summits were intended as forums for American presidents and their delegates, but over time the participation of Civil Society has increased.
Due to frustration with the Argentine Foreign Ministry’s administration of the pre-Summit meetings, CRIES decided not to participate in the official Fourth Summit of the Americas’ in early November 2005.
www.globalenvision.org /library/8/892/6   (1703 words)

  
  Special Summit of the Americas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Summit of the Americas is a unique mechanism for the heads of state and heads of governments to discuss solutions to common political, economic, and social problems in a multilateral and comprehensive way.
The U.S. Government helped fund and participated with representatives of 71 civil society organizations from 21 countries of the Americas in the Regional Forum on Civil Society in the Process of Hemispheric Integration within the Framework of the Special Summit of the Americas, hosted by the Government of Mexico in November 2003.
Originally proposed at the Miami Summit of the Americas in 1994, the hemisphere’s leaders recommitted themselves to the FTAA at the 2001 Quebec Summit.
www.usembassy-mexico.gov /bbf/summit/spec_summit.htm   (4438 words)

  
 EGF NETWORK
The Summits of the Americas have taken the lead in the consideration of the role of civil society in the life of the nations of this hemisphere.
The next Summit of the Americas, scheduled to take place during April 2001 in Quebec City, should seek to continue that tradition by updating the priorities that should be addressed.
However in Latin America, an awareness is beginning to emerge of the fact that a civic foundation to democratic life mandates a new relationship of citizens to democratic institutions.
www.esquel.org /summit.htm   (2451 words)

  
 Inter Press Service News Agency
The deadline, endorsed in Monterrey, was established at the first Summit of the Americas, held in the U.S. city of Miami in 1994, under the auspices of the Organisation of American States (OAS).
Just one week before the Summit, the deputy secretary of state for hemispheric affairs, Roger Noriega, maintained that Cuba was promoting the destabilisation of several Latin American democracies, and suggested that the effort was being financed by Caracas.
Summit host Vicente Fox, president of Mexico, said that the extraordinary meeting had served to reinvigorate commitment to the basic agenda of the hemisphere.
www.ipsnews.net /print.asp?idnews=21908   (861 words)

  
 Rubber bullets, tear gas and mass arrests at the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City
Last month's Summit of the Americas, which brought together the heads of government of the Western Hemisphere, was the object of extraordinary security measures, including the largest police mobilization in Canadian history.
Prior to the summit, the 600 detainees of Orsainville Prison, the area's largest jail, were transferred elsewhere, so as to make room for the anti-summit protesters that the police expected to arrest.
The League's criticisms are doubly significant in that prior to the summit it made a very public display of its neutrality, saying it would condemn abuses by police and demonstrators with equal vehemence.
www.wsws.org /articles/2001/may2001/queb-m02.shtml   (1380 words)

  
 Summit of the Americas Center at AmericasNet.Net: Florida International University - Miami, Florida   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The 1994 Miami Summit of the Americas initiated the process of uniting the southern and northern halves of the Americas in a hemispheric free trade agreement.
The major objectives of the FTAA were established in the Summit of the Americas Declaration of Principles.
In response to new developments in Latin America's economic and political landscape, SOAC also produces a trade database and brief economic and political analyses of Florida and US trade with the major Summit of the Americas countries.
www.americasnet.net /Trade   (1075 words)

  
 Summit of the Americas - Canada Project - Americas Program - Center For Strategic & International Studies
A primer on the agenda for the Summit, with separate sections by CSIS specialists Sidney Weintraub on the prospects for an FTAA, Georges A. Fauriol on the hemispheric policy challenges confronting the Bush administration, and Miguel Diaz on how Latin American and Caribbean countries are approaching regional cooperation.
The Century of the Americas: Dawn of a New Century Dynamic by Georges A. Fauriol and Sidney Weintraub.
Summit of the Americas Conference Highlights Summitry and the Americas— Perspective on the First Summit in Miami and the Second Summit in Santiago
www.csis.org /americas/2001summit.htm   (1077 words)

  
 CNN.com - Protests delay start of Americas summit - April 20, 2001
The third Summit of the Americas opened Friday night after Canadian riot police battled for hours to keep anti-globalism protesters away, using tear gas and, eventually, rubber bullets.
Leaders of 34 countries from the Western Hemisphere are gathered for the three-day summit meeting to discuss free trade, including a movement toward establishment of a hemisphere-wide free trade zone across the Americas.
The convention center where the summit was taking place, as well as the hotels where many of the leaders of the 34 participating countries are staying, are inside the perimeter, away from the protesters.
archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/americas/04/20/summit.americas.04   (1253 words)

  
 Canada and the Hemisphere   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Canada's National Reports on Summit Implementation: Reports detailing Canada's ongoing activities and follow-up from the 2001 Summit of the Americas Plan of Action to December 2003.
Canada's Contribution as Chair of the Summit of the Americas: published in June 2003 when Canada handed over chairmanship of the Summit of the Americas process to Argentina.
The Summit of the Americas: Is Hemispheric Cooperation Relevant to the Citizens of the Americas?
www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca /latinamerica/special-summit-en.asp   (276 words)

  
 Summit of the Americas Plan of Action   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The expansion and consolidation of democracy in the Americas provide an opportunity to build upon the peaceful traditions and the cooperative relationships that have prevailed among the countries of the Western Hemisphere.
The World Summit for Social Development to be held in Copenhagen in March 1995, as well as the United Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing in September 1995, will provide unique opportunities to define strategies to promote social integration, productive employment and the eradication of poverty.
Endorse the maternal and child health objectives of the 1990 World Summit for Children, the 1994 Nari¤o Accord and the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, and reaffirm their commitment to reduce child mortality by one-third and maternal mortality by one-half from 1990 levels by the year 2000.
www.summit-americas.org /miamiplan.htm   (7203 words)

  
 Lessons of Quebec City
While the People's Summit stood in clear opposition to the Summit of the Americas, it was funded in part by the Quebec provincial government to the tune of $300,000.
CLAC and CASA released an overview of the actions during the summit that clearly stated their actions were "green and yellow," which means either totally nonconfrontational or defensive in the language of direct action.
Rather than marching toward the perimeter fence and the Summit of the Americas meetings, march organizers chose a route that marched from the People's Summit away from the fence, through largely empty residential areas to the parking lot of a stadium in a vacant area several miles away.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Dissent/Lessons_QuebecCity.html   (4331 words)

  
 Summit of the Americas - US Department of State
Countries of the Western Hemisphere are being urged to carry out the mandates adopted at the Fourth Summit of the Americas, which was held in November 2005 in Mar del Plata, Argentina.
The fourth Summit of the Americas was a success because the democratic leaders of the Western Hemisphere reaffirmed the importance of strong democratic institutions and sound macro-economic policies, says John Maisto, U.S. national coordinator for the Summit of the Americas.
Fourth Summit of the Americas, Mar del Plata, Argentina, November 4 - 5, 2005
usinfo.state.gov /wh/americas/summit_of_americas.html   (321 words)

  
 SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS 2001 Serious work Notes
SUMMIT Seven men who sought to disrupt the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City last year endangered lives, Judge Pierre Rousseau says.
The Summit of the Americas was the perfect opportunity to correct all the wrongs that have been perpetuated against the indigenous peoples of the Americas, but it failed to do so.
Sun 4/22/01 8:00 PM SUMMIT VOWS TO FIGHT POVERTY, WIDEN FREE TRADE The leaders of the Western Hemisphere ended the Summit of the Americas Sunday by promising a new era of free trade, with economic co-operation tied to democratic principles.
www.wednesday-night.com /QAmerConWorkNotes.htm   (3272 words)

  
 Populist Summit of the Americas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Populist Summit of the Americas is part of a larger process that involves building progressive political movements that are linked across national political boundaries through solidarities.
The Populist Summit of the Americas is a key event that will accelerate the impact of this effect on the grass roots not only in Latin America but in North America as well.
Participants in the Populist Summit of the Americas are persons who have sought the highest elective office in their respective countries on a progressive economic, social, and political platform.
www.ee.upenn.edu /~hunt/PopulistSummit.html   (385 words)

  
 John Derbyshire on Summit of the Americas on National Review Online
The Summits of the Americas are held every three or four years.
Their aim is to promote the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), an effort begun in 1994 to unite all the democracies of the hemisphere in a sort of super-NAFTA.
Certainly egalitarianism of one sort or another was a dominant political theme all through that century, from the redistributionist welfare states of the West, to the kibbutzim of Israel, the state-socialism experiments in Africa, the consensus ethnonationalism of Japan, and the explicitly Marxist states of the second world.
www.nationalreview.com /derbyshire/derbyshire200401260935.asp   (1665 words)

  
 SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS
President Bush came to the Summit to urge Leaders to strengthen the foundations for democracy and economic growth in the hemisphere by taking action to promote democracy and good governance, to spur private sector-led growth and reduce poverty, and to improve health and education.
In a significant step, Summit Leaders agreed to hold consultations if adherence to their shared transparency and anticorruption objectives, as articulated in the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption, is "compromised to a serious degree" in any of the Summit countries.
At this year's summit, we are embracing the challenge of implementing that Consensus to bring all the hemisphere's people into an expanding circle of development.
nyjtimes.com /Government/POTUS04/01SummitOfAmericas.htm   (11536 words)

  
 Summit of the Americas < Civil Society < What We Do < Partners of the Americas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Article Six of the Inter-American Democratic Charter underscores the need for citizens to "participate in decisions relating to their own development." Since 1994, the Summits of the Americas have brought together democracies in the Western Hemisphere to address common concerns, seek solutions, and create a shared vision for the future development of the region.
Partners' study has served to spark dialogue throughout the country on the Summits of the Americas.
Envisioning a Comprehensive Strategy for CSO Participation in the Summits: Partners' Center for Civil Society, the Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL), the IADN, and Corporación PARTICIPA, in collaboration with CSOs from across the region, have developed Civil Society Collaborating to Build the Hemispheric Agenda.
www.partners.net /what_we_do/civil_society/summit_strategy.htm   (732 words)

  
 Smart Label Summit Americas, 27-28 June 2006, Hotel Intercontinental, Miami
Smart Label Summit Americas, 27-28 June 2006, Hotel Intercontinental, Miami
Smart Label Americas 2006 conference is the only conference to bring together a panel of retailers, manufacturers, converters and suppliers to explore the strategic issues of smart label technology solutions - including pallet, case and item level RFID tagging as well as smart active and intelligent labels.
Stay up to date with the Smart Labels Americas show by entering your email address.
smartamericas.labelsummit.com   (178 words)

  
 The Summit of the Americas | www.vcrisis.com
Step one might be to stop kidding ourselves that this circus we call the Summit of the Americas -- instituted in 1994 by that great showman Bill Clinton -- is contributing anything to the region.
The April 2001 summit produced a 43-page "Plan of Action," pledging to eradicate poverty, boost education, ensure equitable access to quality health services and eliminate gender inequality from the Beagle Channel to Baffin Island.
It's as if the summiteers want to skip the process of development and go straight to the stage where the fruits of development are gleefully distributed by the government.
www.vcrisis.com /index.php?content=letters/200401170744   (1039 words)

  
 SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS Bad side 2001 Notes
April 20, 2001 nyt Quebec Summit Gives Bush Forum to Promote Free Trade The demonstrators tore down about 150 feet of the chain link fence about two blocks from the convention center where President Bush and the other leaders of the Western Hemisphere were gathering.
Thu 3/8/01 7:02 AM Summit spat is waste of time Frankly, if anyone's going to gag over the battle between Ottawa and Quebec City over who is to address the Summit of the Americas next month it will be the general public.
Thursday 1 March 2001 Summit won't bind Quebec, Beaudoin says Draft documents shared with MNAs by ELIZABETH THOMPSON..The battle between Quebec and Ottawa over the Summit of the Americas escalated yesterday, as Quebec warned it will not be bound by Canada's signature on a new free-trade agreement for the Americas.
www.wednesday-night.com /QAmerConBadNotes.htm   (2914 words)

  
 Summit of the Americas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
For five days beginning on April 20, the eyes of the world will be riveted on Quebec, host to the Summit of the Americas — a secret gathering of business and government crooks bent on privatizing public property, lowering wages, and destroying labor and environmental protections, all for the sake of mega-profits.
The goal of the summit is to negotiate a trade agreement that will strengthen NAFTA and extend it to Central and South America.
And activists in the USA have a special responsibility to create a revolutionary movement in the "belly of the beast." This is absolutely crucial both for our own survival and well-being and for the welfare of the rest of the planet’s inhabitants, oppressed and abused by unaccountable corporations and politicians in our name.
www.socialism.com /currents/ftaa.html   (728 words)

  
 TIME.com: Special Report: Summit of the Americas -- Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The latest summit meeting place, a French-speaking city whose picturesque 18th-century old town was denominated as a world heritage landmark by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization, will be fenced off and guarded by phalanxes of police in riot gear.
In South America, Argentina has been engulfed by a paralyzing financial crisis that threatens the cohesion and possibly the fate of the Southern Cone trading bloc known as Mercosur (which also includes Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay).
Above all, there is the daunting challenge of the hemisphere's diversity, which brings together at the summit leaders from some of the world's poorest and smallest nations, as well as some of the most populous and richest, including the global superpower, in a search for common political, social and economic ground.
www.time.com /time/world/article/0,8599,107006,00.html   (3040 words)

  
 Orbitz: Hotel Details
Americas Best Value Inn was built in 1996 and is a two story property offering 30 rooms.
You can relax in the whirlpool or take in a movie at Summit Plaza Theaters located just one block away.
Located on Hwy 54 at exit AAOO in a quiet bedroom community, just five miles north of the Jefferson City state capital building and downtown area.
www.orbitz.com /App/ViewSpecificHotelLP?masterId=49545   (254 words)

  
 Summit of the Americas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
President Clinton has invited the 33 democratically elected leaders of the Western Hemisphere to a Summit of the Americas in Miami, Florida, December 9-11, 1994.
Improve the well-being of the people of the Americas by alleviating poverty and raising standards of health and education, helping to create citizenry and societies that recognize the value of protecting and renewing environmental resources for future generations.
The summit will generate a plan of action to give life to these three themes, taking advantage of expanding, active relationships in the hemisphere among private citizens, non- governmental organizations, regional institutions, and governments.
dosfan.lib.uic.edu /erc/bureaus/lat/1994/941130summitamerica.html   (764 words)

  
 Summit of the Americas (Quebec City)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
on duty during the summit, hoping to prevent the chaos and violence
summit in a special section of the Montreal Gazette.
The "Summit Security" site for the Summit of the Americas is now online
ukemonde.com /summit   (178 words)

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