Latinnews Daily - 4 February 2004

Brazil's representative at the deputy ministerial summit meeting of the 34 countries involved in the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) is sounding more conciliatory than his bosses did at the Miami ministerial meeting last November. The deputy ministerial meeting started yesterday in Puebla, Mexico, and Regis Arslanian, the director of international negotiations at the trade and industry ministry, claimed that the Miami meeting had unblocked the process. He said that he expected the FTAA to be in place by 2005.

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