U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke at Council of the Americas' 41st Annual Washington Conference, discussing economic and security cooperation in the hemisphere, immigration, social inclusion, and her support for the pending free trade agreements with Colombia and Panama.
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Speaking at COA's 41st Washington Conference, President of El Salvador Maurico Funes talked about his country's economic growth and social ambitions, regional security, and poverty alleviation (en español).
Mexico's President Felipe Calderón, El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joined us as speakers at our annual conference.
Following her remarks at COA's Washington Conference, the assistant secretary of state writes in a post for U.S. State Department's DipNote that "the United States' road to recovery lies right here in our region."
View highlights from Council of the Americas' 41st Annual Washington Conference on the Americas, held May 10-11, 2011.
Speaking at COA's 40th Washington Conference, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talked about the primacy of hemispheric issues on the Obama administration's agenda. She stressed three priority areas for U.S.-Latin America cooperation: trade and energy partnerships, public security, and inequality and immigration.
During COA's 40th Washington Conference, Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Lawrence Cannon discussed Canada's engagement in the Americas and regional economic integration, saying, "Protectionism is the single biggest threat to a thriving global economy, and free trade is the only viable alternative to protectionism."