Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Peter DeShazo, director of the CSIS Americas Program, was quoted by the Houston Chronicle, "Trade Talk of Summit, But Controversy Looms."
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Peter DeShazo, director of the CSIS Americas Program, was quoted by the Houston Chronicle, "Trade Talk of Summit, But Controversy Looms."
With free trade issues looming large in the race to replace him, President Bush this week convenes his final North American Leaders' Summit, focusing on trade, economic and security issues with counterparts from Mexico and Canada.
Bush is hosting Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in New Orleans for a two-day conference starting today. It is the fourth annual meeting of a summit that first convened in 2005 in Waco. [...]
"I think in general there is a high level of coordination and consultation," said Peter DeShazo, director of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "There are always bilateral issues that are points of discord because variables in relationships are so great ... (but) the overall importance of the relationships is considerable."
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