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Weekly Report - 9 November 2004

Rio Group embarks upon mediating spree which some see as unwanted intervention

One way of looking at the outcome of the Rio Group's 18th summit last week in Rio is that, as put by Peruvian foreign minister Manuel Rodríguez Cuadros, it has returned to its roots; it has got back into the business of mediating in disputes or conflicts. Prominent among its final recommendations were resolutions setting up groups to mediate in Haiti, Ecuador, and before the multilateral lenders. Another angle, to judge from external reactions, is that like the OAS it has come dangerously close to the borderline between good offices and intervention in the internal affairs of countries in the region.

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