2nd Summit of the Americas
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| Host country | Chile |
| Dates | April 1998 |
The 2nd Summit of the Americas was held in Santiago, Chile, in April 1998.[1]
This gathering of regional leaders was the first attempt in four years to negotiate conditions for the creation of a hemispheric free trade area. No final agreements were made, but the nations set up a Trade Negotiations Committee (TNC) consisting of vice ministers from each country that would meet every few months. Negotiations began with the Summits of the Americas in Miami in 1994.
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[edit] Overview
The "Summit of the Americas" is the name for a continuing series of summits bringing together the leaders of North America and South America. The function of these summits is to foster discussion of a variety of issues affecting the western hemisphere. These high-level summit meetings have been organized by a number of multilateral bodies under the aegis of the Organization of American States. In the early 1990s, what were formerly ad hoc summits came to be institutionalized into a regular "Summits of the Americas" conference program.[2]
- December 9-11, 1994 [3] -- 1st Summit of the Americas at Miami in the United States.[4]
- December 7-8, 1996 [3] -- Summit of the Americas on Sustainable Development at Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia.[5]
[edit] Protests and demonstrations
The summits which garnered most general public and media attention were the Quebec City and Mar del Plata events, both provoking very large anti-globalization and anti–Free Trade Area of the Americas protests. Police responses to protesters and demonstrations developed into independent news stories.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Summit Americas: II summit (2nd)
- ^ Twaddle, Andrew C. (2002). Health Care Reform Around the World, p. 382.
- ^ a b Florida International University, Summit of the Americas Center (SOAC): Summits list
- ^ Summit Americas: I summit (1st)
- ^ Summit Americas: Sustainable development
[edit] References
- Twaddle, Andrew C. (2002). Health Care Reform Around the World. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing. 10-ISBN 0-86569-288-2; 13-ISBN 978-0-86569-288-6; OCLC 48132063
[edit] External links
| Preceded by 1st Summit of the Americas |
Summits of the Americas 1998 Santiago, Chile |
Succeeded by 3rd Summit of the Americas |
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