In remarks to the Baker Institute's Americas Project, COA Vice President Eric Farnsworth discussed pending U.S.-Latin American trade agreements and the need for Washington to refocus on inter-American relations.
The senator and presidential candidate addressed prominent business and public sector leaders at an AS/COA luncheon held in New York (en español).
In an AS/COA public event, President Michelle Bachelet highlighted the importance of energy stability and noted that Chile has reached out to U.S. congressional leaders to voice support for pending hemispheric free-trade agreements.
Key Western Hemisphere ministers such as Thomas Shannon explored issues at the forefront of the U.S.-Western Hemisphere agenda during the 37th Annual Washington Conference on the Americas.
Creating open markets, improving development assistance, and securing reasonably priced energy supplies are the leading components of a U.S. strategy to engage the hemisphere. John Negroponte cautions that “questionable decision-making in some capitals threatens to spread poverty and inequality.”
David L. Emerson, Canadian Minister of International Trade, addessed COA on May 2, 2007.
