The meeting of foreign ministers of South American countries ended days ago with a final declaration in which the (Mercosur) underlines its determination to launch very soon trade negotiations with Morocco, and they stressed their desire to move towards signing a free trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, and Venezuela in the accession process) and the GCC (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman) the two entities have signed in May 2005 an agreement of economic cooperation, which became effective in October 2006 in Riyadh, and they started negotiations for a free trade agreement.
Paraguay has just withdrawn its recognition of Polisario ( Moroccan separatist group backed and based in Algeria) as a step to closer relations with Morocco, Paraguay has entered in a huge democratic reform process, the new foreign minister Jorge Lara Castro who declared that the statements by the former totalitarian government were dropped entirely days after his replacement, therefore Paraguay government asked Polisario Representatives, located in the Algerian consulate in the capital Asunción, to stop all diplomatic activity and to leave the country.
By Jalal Nali
Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, and Venezuela in the accession process) and the GCC (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman) the two entities have signed in May 2005 an agreement of economic cooperation, which became effective in October 2006 in Riyadh, and they started negotiations for a free trade agreement.
Paraguay has just withdrawn its recognition of Polisario ( Moroccan separatist group backed and based in Algeria) as a step to closer relations with Morocco, Paraguay has entered in a huge democratic reform process, the new foreign minister Jorge Lara Castro who declared that the statements by the former totalitarian government were dropped entirely days after his replacement, therefore Paraguay government asked Polisario Representatives, located in the Algerian consulate in the capital Asunción, to stop all diplomatic activity and to leave the country.
By Jalal Nali
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