[hedgetrimmer]

FTAA - TRADE NEGOTIATIONS COMMITTEE on theTHE TREATMENT OF SMALLER ECONOMIES AND THE DIFFERENT LEVELS OF DEVELOPMENT

In the negotiations for the Free Trade Area of the Americas, the issue of the treatment of the abysmal differences in the size of economies and of the extraordinary differences in the levels of development has still not been satisfactorily resolved.

A project to create a free trade area that will truly be an opportunity for all the countries must set the necessary mechanisms into motion that will contribute specific and effective responses so as to reduce the immense initial inequalities.

Solidarity is the key to ensuring that a free trade area becomes the opportunity for all that it is touted to be.

Hence, Structural Convergence Funds to correct the disparities in infrastructure and services, technological and innovative capacities, and human capital among the countries must be created in order to prevent a free trade area from becoming a space with some winners and many losers. Structural and technological convergence is essential to ensure that the FTAA becomes a win-win alliance.

1rudeboy, the communists are in the OAS which is the enforcing agency of the FTAA.

You are falsely making relationships that do not exist with members of this forum. You cannot defend the FTAA treaty language because it is communist in nature and a clear threat to the sovereignty of America so you try to throw in a completely unrelated comment as a red herring. Your insults belie your true affilitation.

[1rudeboy]

Underneath your "signature," and specifically underneath the "time of reply," is a wonderful feature that allows anyone to track replies backward. Try using it . . . then see if you can come-up with something constructive.