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Remarks by Heads of State during the Special Summit
  Remarks by the Prime Minister of Belize, Said Musa - January 12, 2004
Remarks by the Prime Minister of Canada, Paul Martin - January 12, 2004
Remarks by the President of Chile, Ricardo Lagos (in Spanish)
  Remarks by the President of  the Dominican Republic, Hipólito Mejía - January 12, 2004 (in Spanish)
Remarks by the President of México, Vicente Fox at the opening ceremony- January 12, 2004 (only in Spanish)
Remarks by the President of Mexico, Vicente Fox at the closing ceremony - January 13, 2004 (only in Spanish)
  Remarks by the President of the Republic of Paraguay, Dr. Nicanor Duarte Frutos - January 12, 2004 (only in Spanish)
Remarks by the President of the United States, George Bush - January 12, 2004
  Remarks by Horst Kohler, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund - January 12, 2004

                

The following are stenographical versions of the remarks given during the working sessions of the Special Summit of the Americas, which took place at the Pinacoteca Art Centre in the Parque Fundidora in Monterrey, Mexico (All are in Spanish only) (Courtesy of Comité Organizador Mexicano)
Mr. Vincent Fox Quesada, President of the United States of Mexico
Mr. George Bush, President of the United States of America (at the inauguration in the Cineteca Art Centre in Parque Fundidora)
Mr. Paul Martin, Prime Minister of Canada
Mr. Hugo Chavez, President of the Republic of Venezuela (an intervention during the first working session)
Mr. Alejandro Toledo, President of Peru
Mr. Ricardo Maduro Joest, President of Honduras
Mr. Luis Inázio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil
Dr. Denzil Douglas, Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis
Dr. Alvaro Uribe Vélez, President of Colombia
Mr. Perry Gladstone Christie, Prime Minister of the Bahamas
Mr. David Ferranti, World Bank
Mr. Garcia, Director of the Andean Corporation of Financing,
Mr.Hugo Chavez, President of the Republic of Venezuela
Mr. James Patterson, President of Jamaica
Ms. Mireya Moscoso, President of the Republic of Panama
Dr. Ralph E. Gonsalves, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Mr. Owen S. Arthur, Prime Minister of Barbados
Mr. Don Carlos Diego Mesa Ginbert, President of the Republic of Bolivia
Mr. Lucio E Gutiérrez Borbúa, President of Ecuador
Mr. Don Ricardo Lagos Escobar, President of Chile
Mr. Runaldo Ronald Venetian, President of Suriname
Mr. Cesar Gaviria, Secretary General of the Organization of American States (at the closing ceremony)
Mr. Vincent Fox Quesada, President of the United States of Mexico (at the closing ceremony)

Other links of interest:

www.oas.org/documents/SpecialSummitMexico
www.comormex.org/ceamexico/web/home.php
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