Both Brazil and Venezuela have championed the idea of regional integration and economic independence.
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One needn't overlook the ethnic and religious hurdles to regional integration in either case to see the possibilities.
Chavez is seen as a good partner for regional integration and this is what matters to the Brazilian leaders.
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Sharing waters is actually often a driver for international cooperation and regional integration.
Minister of Foreign Trade from 2003 to 2005, she was instrumental in advancing regional integration projects in Latin America.
Mutambara would oversee education, industry and commerce, and regional integration and international cooperation.
But the problem has been that the drive towards regional integration became the excuse to disregard political democracy and legality.
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Well-articulated strategies to link national development and regional integration efforts were needed.
India unveiled plans to build institutions such as the India-Africa Institute of Information Technology in Ghana and promote regional integration through infrastructure development.
Mr Chavez's ambitions to join Mercosur (the regional integration scheme founded by Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) were long blocked by the Paraguayan senate.
And whereas Canadian companies once strongly backed regional integration, their focus has now shifted to Asia, turning their North American agenda almost entirely towards the United States.
As a member of the West African Economic and Monetary Union, Senegal is working toward greater regional integration with a unified external tariff and a more stable monetary policy.
This was followed by Alba, a regional integration scheme that would grow to include Cuba, Bolivia, Ecuador, Honduras (until 2009) and Nicaragua, as well as a few small independent Caribbean states.
The Conference also recommended a number of strategies to improve reporting on Caribbean regional integration and the achievement of the UN Millennium Development Goals, including poverty alleviation, to which regional governments are committed.
In the regional sphere, they further underscored the relevance of regional integration, highlighting the Organization of American States as the main hemispheric forum, as well as the importance of strengthening the Inter-American Democratic Charter.
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This means that efforts to foster regional integration by creating larger markets, simplifying trading rules, reducing corruption, and investing in regional infrastructure to promote movement of goods will go a long way toward strengthening US-Africa relations.
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Thus, Mr. Fernandez explained that the regional integration of Latin America, the US loss of control over Venezuela and Bolivia's energy resources, and Brazil and Argentina's increasing independence from (US) economic manipulation, has made America uneasy.
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The entire left, extreme and moderate in the region admired Chavez and saw him as a key in the regional integration of the continent despite the fact that conservative governments in Latin America also supported regional integration.
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The Brazilian government seems to also obsessively believe that regional integration- an idea that was championed by former Brazilian president Henrique Cardozo and is supported by conservative governments in the region- can only work with left wing governments.
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The continent is needed more than ever, they said, but I think African CEOs must start working together, trusting each other, thinking of implementing a regional integration package and finding a route for transferring solutions between African countries.
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Chavez and his revolution are so powerful that various governments in South America, including that of Brazil, a rising world power, viewed the victory of Chavez in the October elections as a necessary condition for the continuity of regional integration.
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The idea that regional integration can only come to being through the left and not through the right has pushed conservative governments, also eager to be part of this regional integration, to adopt positions aimed at gaining the acceptance of its leftist neighbors.
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Regional integration has proved complicated.
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This was followed by a joint press stakeout, where the Secretary-General told reporters that he discussed the cooperation between the United Nations and Brazil with the Foreign Minister in the areas of world peace, regional integration, and the promotion of human rights, among others.
In retrospect, the flexible, if unregulated, labour market has been one of the strongest indicators of greater regional economic integration.
The TPP will deepen regional economic integration not only by lowering tariffs, but by addressing 21st century trade and investment issues.
We aim to enhance economic growth and prosperity for both our nations through bilateral economic harmonization and the promotion of regional economic integration.
We always envisioned the TPP as a growing platform for regional economic integration, open to additional countries willing and able to meet its high standards.
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Chavez has been seen as a symbol of Latin American unity and regional economic integration even as many countries in the region support this idea including conservative ones.
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