[Imc-newsroom] Corporate FTAA lunch in Chicago

[Peter Miller]

High-powered corporate and government ('sorry about the redundancy there) 
people will meet to discuss the FTAA in Chicago on Thursday, May 
17.  Cocktails are from 5:15 - 5:45, and the panel goes from 5:45 until 7 
p.m.  The location is in the message below.

Yikes!  These folks are big and nasty.  They're a centerpoint for corporate 
globalization, hosting people like Henry Kissinger and the director-general 
of the WTO.  Go here to see thier press releases and join their media 
list:  https://www.ccfr.org/media/media.html

If you'd like to attend as a member of the press, fax your credentials (a 
letter on letterhead saying that your're a reporter and would like to 
attend and/or a copy of your press pass) to (312) 726-4491, attn: Debbie Kroll.

-Peter


The Committee on Foreign Affairs
of the
Chicago Council on Foreign Relations

cordially invites you to attend a meeting cosponsored with the

Council of the Americas

on

Prospects for the Free Trade Area of the Americas

Featuring

Renard P. Aron
    President and Founder
    Shear Communications

Nelson W. Cunningham
    Managing Director
    Kissinger McLarty Associates

John E. Huenemann
    Vice President
    Trade, Investment & Global Markets
    GPC International

Moderated by:
Rosemary Werrett
    Senior Director, Corporate Relations
    Council of the Americas

The Mid-America Club
200 East Randolph Drive, 80th Floor
Chicago, IL

The panel of trade experts will analyze the prospects for implementation in 
2005 of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), which would incorporate 
34 countries and cover an area of nearly 800 million people, accounting for 
more than $11 trillion in GDP in 2000. The discussion will include the 
challenges involved in doing business in the current climate and in 
concluding the negotiations. Key issues include Brazil's concerns, the 
likelihood that President Bush will get trade promotion (formerly "fast 
track) authority, and the marketability of FTAA to the American and Latin 
American public.

Renard Aron is a former executive director of the US section of the 
Brazil-US Business Council Nelson Cunningham is a former special advisor to 
President Clinton for Latin American affairs John Huenemann is a former US 
assistant trade representative for North American affairs


Registration required. Admission: $20.00/person
To register, visit <https://www.ccfr.org/events/registration.asp>