MEDIA REACTION ON THE OAS, JUNE 20, 2005

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SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION ON THE OAS, JUNE 20, 2005



2. The San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" carried
an editorial entitled "Continental Summit." "The Central
American presidents, Mexico, Chile, Colombia and the
Secretary General of the Organization of American States

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(OAS) will meet in Tegucigalpa the 29 and 30th of this month
to hold a meeting of the Tuxtla Gutierrez Mechanism as well
as a regular meeting of the Central American Integration
System (SICA)."

"The purpose of this continental summit is to analyze and
make decisions regarding the Puebla Panama Plan (PPP) and
examine the integration process in Central America. Other
topics that will be discussed are the fight against
terrorism, organized crime, and situations of
ungovernability in the region."

"In the course of these two days of the Summit of
Presidents, more than likely the attention of the presidents
and the ministries of foreign affairs will be focused on
critical problems, among which are the situations in
Nicaragua and Panama."

"Also, this Continental Summit offers some hopes on a
possible alignment in Latin AMERICA based on the North-South
blocks that seem to be the basis of North American diplomacy
in dealing with Latin America."

Palmer