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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03BRASILIA1066 |
BRAZILIAN FTAA COORDINATOR ON A SOCIAL AGENDA FOR [...] (U) Brazilian press reported on March 28 that President Lula wants to include discussion of social issues in the FTAA negotiations and that the GOB plans to submit proposals for doing so at the Trade Negotiating Committee (TNC) meeting in Puebla, Mexico April 7-11. In discussions with EconOff [...] |
2003-04-03 12:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD BR FTAA |
| 03BRASILIA1321 |
ADVISOR DENIES AMORIM PROPOSING FTAA DELAY [...] (SBU) Summary. According to Antonio Simoes, Economic Advisor to Foreign Minister Amorim, local press inaccurately reported Amorim's April 23 remarks to the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies concerning the GoB's alleged intent to delay FTAA negotiations. Simoes stressed to us that the GoB wants to [...] |
2003-04-28 22:44:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD BR FTAA |
| 03BRASILIA1550 |
BRAZIL CONTINUES TO DEBATE TRADE POLICY ON EVE OF [...] (U) This is an Action Request; please see para 15. 2. (SBU) Summary. In the run-up to USTR Zoellick's May 27-28 visit, debate has intensified publicly, within the GoB, and perhaps most of all in the Foreign Ministry, on Brazil's participation in the FTAA negotiations. A number of policy [...] |
2003-05-20 19:14:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD BR FTAA |
| 03BRASILIA2231 |
BRAZIL'S ARSLANIAN: FTAA COMPROMISE POSSIBLE [...] (C) Summary. In an informal discussion with econoff on July 13, Regis Arslanian, the GOB's new director of FTAA and Mercosul-EU negotiations, acknowledged that Mercosul was disappointed with the reaction it received during the San Salvador TNC meeting to its proposal for restructuring the FT [...] |
2003-07-18 10:14:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD BR FTAA |
| 03BRASILIA2233 |
WHAT'S BEHIND BRAZIL'S FTAA POLICY [...] (U) The description that follows of the political and economic factors helping to shape Brazil's trade policy, and specifically its approach to the FTAA negotiations, is offered to assist U.S. policymakers in determining whether and how enough common ground can be found to conclude the FTAA pr [...] |
2003-07-18 10:16:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD BR FTAA |
| 03BRASILIA2364 |
BRAZIL: NO PUBLIC SIGN OF RETREAT FROM FTAA [...] (SBU) Summary. Following the FTAA Trade Negotiating Committee meeting in San Salvador July 8-11, during which Mercosul unveiled Brazil's 3-track proposal for restructuring negotiations to unenthusiastic Vice-Ministers, public debate in Brazil over the FTAA has been unusually quiet. Itamaraty [...] |
2003-07-28 10:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD BR FTAA |
| 03BRASILIA306 |
FTAA/WTO CONTINUITY DESPITE ASCENSION OF REGIONAL [...] SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. 2. Summary. Moving quickly to bring his ministry's institutions in line with the new government's focus on South American integration, and in particular, a reinvigoration of Mercosul, Foreign Minister Amorim has announced the creation of a new South America Und [...] |
2003-01-29 14:09:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECIN PGOV BR WTRO FTAA |
| 03BRASILIA3070 |
AMORIM BRIEFS CONGRESS ON CANCUN MINISTERIAL [...] ECONFSN attended the September 17 presentation on WTO issues by Brazil's Foreign Minister Celso Amorim to the Chamber of Deputies Foreign Affairs Committee after the FM's return from the 9/10-14 Cancun Ministerial. This was FM Amorim's second appearance this month before the Committee at the [...] |
2003-09-23 16:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV BR FTAA |
| 03BRASILIA3124 |
BRAZIL: NO POST-CANCUN REGRETS OR SECOND THOUGHTS [...] (U) All public and official signs are that the GoB still feels solid self-satisfaction over its performance at Cancun. It displays zero compunction over Cancun's collapse or the possible damage to the WTO's future, while reaffirming that the WTO remains the planet's indispensable multi-lateral [...] |
2003-09-26 19:51:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL EFIN ECON EINV BR FTAA |
| 03BRASILIA3459 |
CAN ITAMARATY'S STRANGLEHOLD ON FTAA POLICY BE [...] Summary. Widespread reporting in Brazil on the outcome of the FTAA TNC meeting in Trinidad & Tobago (T&T) unleashed a hail of criticism directed at Itamaraty, both on the substance of its FTAA policy and its conduct in T&T. By the end of the TNC meeting, Brazilian dailies were reporting that [...] |
2003-10-27 17:47:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD BR FTAA |
| 03BRASILIA356 |
UPDATE ON TIMING OF MERCOSUL FTAA OFFERS [...] (U) Brazilian dailies Gazeta Mercantil and O Estado reported today on the progress of market access discussions this week between Mercosul FTAA negotiating teams meeting in Asuncion. The dailies note that a consensus position regarding all of the FTAA market access offers has not been achieve [...] |
2003-01-31 17:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD BR FTAA |
| 03BRASILIA439 |
BRAZIL SWAYS MERCOSUL ON FTAA OFFERS [...] (U) Following through on its rhetoric to strengthen and unify Mercosul, Brazil's new government has acted forcefully and decisively to forge consensus with its Mercosul partners over FTAA initial offers. Foreign Minister Amorim, first securing the Argentine pledge of solidarity in Buenos Aires [...] |
2003-02-07 14:59:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD BR FTAA |
| 03BRASILIA907 |
BRAZIL: SERVICES HELD HOSTAGE TO AGRICULTURE [...] (U) Econoff met on March 12 with Felipe Hees of the Services, Investment and Financial Issues Division of Itamaraty to discuss prospects for Brazil's submission of services offers in the WTO (reftel) and FTAA negotiations. WTO - Submission by Deadline Is Doubtful 2. (U) Although Hees stre [...] |
2003-03-24 13:12:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON WTRO FTAA |
| 03OTTAWA1663 |
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO SOLICITS FTAA SECRETARIAT [...] No summary [...] |
2003-06-12 18:56:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD TD CA FTAA |
| 04BRASILIA3047 |
AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES FTAA AND OTHER ISSUES WITH [...] (U) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION, ON DECEMBER 9 AMBASSADOR MET WITH MEMBERS OF THE BRAZILIAN CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE COMMITTEE TO REVIEW OUTSTANDING ISSUES IN THE USG-GOB BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP. ALTHOUGH THE MEETING AGENDA INCLUDED POTENTIAL TOPICS SPANNING A VARIETY OF D [...] |
2004-12-14 09:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ETRD ETTC MNUC SENV BR FTAA |
| 04BRASILIA3106 |
BRAZIL: BOEING EXECUTIVES DISCUSS INVESTMENT, [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS BASED UPON INPUT PROVIDED BY ECON, POL, AND FCS SECTIONS AT AMEMBASSY BRASILIA AND AMCONSULATE SAO PAULO. 2. (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION. DURING A NOVEMBER 30-DECEMBER FCS-ORGANIZED GOLD KEY MISSION, BOEING VICE PRESIDENT THOMAS PICKERING, ACCOMPANIED BY ALEXANDER WATSON [...] |
2004-12-20 09:11:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR EINV BEXP ETRD BR FTAA |
| 04BRASILIA526 |
BRAZILIAN RESPONSE TO FTAA DEMARCHE [...] (C) Econoff delivered reftel talking points to Regis Arslanian, Itamaraty Director for International Trade, and Tovar da Silva Nunes, Itamaraty FTAA Coordinator and member of the Brazilian Co-Chair team, on March 4. In responding, they conveyed a constructive attitude, albeit without signali [...] |
2004-03-05 19:54:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD BR FTAA |
| 04BRASILIA862 |
FTAA: INITIAL BUENOS AIRES FALLOUT IN BRASILIA [...] (U) Summary. Following the informal FTAA discussions in Buenos Aires March 31-April 1, which ended without agreement (reftel), Brazilian Foreign Ministry (Itamaraty) officials launched an aggressive media campaign to get the word out that U.S. intransigence was to blame for the impasse. Fore [...] |
2004-04-08 19:38:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD BR FTAA |
| 04BUENOSAIRES2291 |
FORMER PRESIDENT DUHALDE ON KIRCHNER, FTAA AND [...] (C) Summary: Former President Eduardo Duhalde claims that a MERCOSUR-led "South American Union" will be announced before year's end. He claimed to support free trade and FTAA, especially after the recent compromise reached at the WTO meeting in Geneva. Duhalde said President Kirchner is more pr [...] |
2004-08-10 21:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PGOV PREL AR MERCOSUR FTAA |
| 05BRASILIA1017 |
AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL CHIEF OF [...] (C) Summary/Action Request. On 12 April Ambassador and PolCouns met for a private lunch at the COM Residence with the Presidency's Civil Household Minister and Presidential Chief of Staff Jose Dirceu, who was accompanied by his international affairs advisor, Ambassador Americo Fontanelles. Di [...] |
2005-04-13 20:14:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD BR FTAA |
| 05BRASILIA1067 |
PRESIDENTIAL CHIEF OF STAFF OF DIRCEU ON FTAA AND [...] (C) Summary. On April 18, Ambassador and a visiting delegation from the State of Florida met with Presidential Chief of Staff Jose Dirceu to discuss Miami,s bid to become the permanent FTAA secretariat site. Dirceu took the opportunity to state his desire that the FTAA talks move forw [...] |
2005-04-20 13:45:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD KIPR SOCI BR FTAA |
| 05BRASILIA3185 |
CODEL HYDE DISCUSSES FTAA, CORRUPTION SCANDAL WITH [...] Summary. Brazilian Congressional representatives told CODEL Hyde December 2 that they would like to see an increase in dialogue between the U.S. and Brazilian legislatures on important topics like the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). One representative said Brazil's recent corruption [...] |
2005-12-05 17:46:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON BR FTAA ETRO US |
| 05BRASILIA715 |
BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR'S 14 MARCH MEETING WITH FM [...] (C) Introduction. Ambassador was called for a one-on-one meeting with Foreign Minister Amorim on the afternoon of 14 March. Amorim focused initially on reiterating his strong interest in meeting soon with Secretary Rice, in spite of unsuccessful efforts to schedule a Washington meeting in lat [...] |
2005-03-15 18:24:00 | Embassy Brasilia | SECRET | PREL BR ETRD MARR FTAA US |