FTAA negotiations run into difficulties in Miami

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2003/noviembre03/mart18/46alca.html

WASHINGTON, November 17.— Negotiations for the creation of a Free Trade 
Treaty of the Americas (FTAA) in 2005 have run into a difficult stage of 
meetings in Miami marked by differences among the parties.

Prensa Latina reports that experts and ministers of the 34 nations involved 
in the process, from which Cuba is excluded due to U.S. pressure, are to 
discuss up until Friday the most diverse aspects linked to that mechanism 
in an attempt to achieve even a minimal advance to avert collapse.

According to experts, the profound differences that have emerged during the 
talks is precisely reflected in the draft agreement, where more than 5,000 
points in 15,000-plus pages are in parentheses due to a lack of consensus 
on them.

The FTAA initiative, promoted by Washington in order to form an enormous 
economic bloc of 800 million consumers, faces further complications given 
the recent breakdown of the ministerial meeting of the World Trade 
Organization (WTO), due to positions over issues such as agricultural 
subsidies.




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