The Summit of Americas is completely separate and has nothing to do with the FTAA.
Stop alarming people, by deliberately muddying the water.
The FTAA is just want it says, a TRADE agreement.
The Summit of Americas is where everyone goes to release some hot air to make themselves feel good, but nothing comes of it. There is nothing binding about what is said. It's like another useless UN-like thing, just for "the
Americas".
And it has absolutely nothing to do with the FTAA.
All the "scary stuff" you were quoting is from the Summit of Americas, NONE of it is from the FTAA, for the simple reason, that the FTAA doesn't have anything to do with any of it.
The FTAA (economic intregration) is just one working group under the Summit process.
http://www.summit-americas.org/
http://www.alca-ftaa.org/Summits_e.asp
Summit of the Americas - Trade
Read here: http://www.summit-americas.org/Quebec-Trade/trade-eng.htm
This section of the Quebec City Plan of Action addresses trade and investment in the hemisphere, its economic and financial stability, and corporate social responsibility. Each of these initiatives, which involves the FTAA negotiations, cooperation among the Hemisphere’s finance ministers and the promotion of corporate social responsibility, contributes to meeting the leaders’ commitment to hemispheric integration and national and collective responsibility for improving economic well-being throughout the region.
Key documents in the area of Trade, Investment and Financial Stability:
Antecedents of the FTAA Process
http://www.alca-ftaa.org/View_e.asp
The effort to unite the economies of the Americas into a single free trade area began at the Summit of the Americas, which was held in December 1994 in Miami, U.S.A. The Heads of State and Government of the 34 democracies in the region agreed to construct a Free Trade Area of the Americas, or FTAA, in which barriers to trade and investment will be progressively eliminated. They agreed to complete negotiations towards this agreement by the year 2005 and to achieve substantial progress toward building the FTAA by 2000. The Heads of State and Government further directed their ministers responsible for trade to take a series of concrete initial steps to achieve the Free Trade Area of the Americas. Their decisions regarding these steps are contained in the Miami Summit's Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action.
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FREE TRADE AREA OF THE AMERICAS
EIGHTH MINISTERIAL MEETING
MIAMI, USA
November 20, 2003
MINISTERIAL DECLARATION
INTRODUCTION
1. We, the Ministers Responsible for Trade in the Hemisphere, representing the 34 countries participating in the negotiations of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) held our Eighth Ministerial Meeting in Miami, United States of America, on November 20-21, 2003, in order to provide guidance for the final phase of the FTAA negotiations.
2. We recognize the significant contribution that economic integration, including the FTAA, will make to the attainment of the objectives established in the Summit of the Americas process: strengthening democracy, creating prosperity and realizing human potential. We reiterate that the negotiation of the FTAA will continue to take into account the broad social and economic agenda contained in the Miami, Santiago and Quebec City Declarations and Plans of Action with a view to contributing to raising living standards, increasing employment, improving the working conditions of all people in the Americas, strengthening social dialogue and social protection, improving the levels of health and education and better protecting the environment. We reaffirm the need to respect and value cultural diversity as set forth in the 2001 Summit of the Americas Declaration and Plan of Action.
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http://www.ftaa-alca.org/Ministerials/Miami/Miami_e.asp
http://www.oas.org/main/main.asp?sLang=E&sLink=http://www.oas.org/OASpage/eng/latestnews/latestnews.asp
Key OAS Issues
Free Trade in the Hemisphere
...Free trade has been an integral part of the Summit of the Americas process since the leaders of the 34 democratic countries of the Western Hemisphere launched the process of creating the FTAA in 1994, at the First Summit of the Americas. The Second Summit of the Americas, in 1998, marked the beginning of formal FTAA negotiations. At the Third Summit of the Americas, held in April 2001 in Quebec City, Canada, the presidents and prime ministers agreed to conclude negotiations by January 2005 so the trade pact can enter into force no later than December of that same year. ...