Weekly Report - 30 March 2004
PARAGUAY: Taking distance from Washington
Apparently seeking to illustrate what he calls the `new spirit of liberation impregnating South America', President Nicanor Duarte found last week that his prior engagements precluded receiving White House envoy Otto Reich, who was on a tour soliciting votes to condemn Cuba at the UN Commission of Human Rights. Reich was hosted instead by foreign minister Leila Rachid, who told him that Paraguay had not yet made up its mind on the issue.
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