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      "date": "2001-05-10",
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      "title": "Summit of the Americas III, Quebec City, Canada, April 20-22, 2001: Background, Objectives, and Results",
      "summary": "Summit of the Americas III was held in Quebec City, Canada, on April 20-22, 2001, and was\nattended by 34 democratically elected Presidents and Prime Ministers from the Western Hemisphere,\nincluding President George W. Bush. It was President Bush's first international summit, and his first\nmajor opportunity to reemphasize the priority his administration places on the Western Hemisphere,\ngiven that he visited Mexico in mid-February, spoke at the Organization of American States (OAS)\nin mid-April, and met with seven hemispheric leaders before he attended the Summit in Canada. \n  The Quebec City Summit was a follow up to the presidential-level Summit of the Americas I\n(Miami, Florida, December 1994) and Summit of the Americas II (Santiago, Chile, April 1998), as\nwell as the ministerial Summit for Sustainable Development (Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia,\nDecember 1996).\n  Most analysts agree that the hemispheric countries and organizations have made progress on\nthe broad mandates established in 1994, 1996, and 1998, namely to preserve and strengthen\ndemocracy, promote prosperity through freer trade, eradicate poverty and discrimination, and\nguarantee sustainable development and environmental conservation. However, some argue that\nprogress has been disappointing in education, sustainable development, and in promotion of civil\nsociety participation. Others argue that democracy remains fragile in the hemisphere and that\npoverty, discrimination, and injustice are still pervasive. \n  The Quebec Summit had a high degree of consensus among the 34 heads of state, although\nthere are still considerable differences regarding the final form of the Free Trade Area of the\nAmericas (FTAA). The hemispheric leaders dealt with three major themes: (1) Strengthening\nDemocracy, where they agreed to a democracy clause that specified that democratic government was\nan essential condition for participation in the summit process; (2) Creating Prosperity, where they\nagreed to advance toward the conclusion of the agreement on the FTAA by January 2005; and (3)\nRealizing Human Potential, where they agreed to initiatives to promote education, health, and greater\nequity for women, youth, and indigenous peoples. Considerable press coverage focused on the\nprotesters who argue that free trade agreements benefit business groups and the wealthy while\nresulting in the degradation of labor and environmental standards.\n  Congress may be particularly interested in plans to advance FTAA negotiations, in efforts to\nimplement the democracy clause for the hemisphere, in future assessments under the Multilateral\nEvaluation Mechanism (MEM) of hemispheric counter-narcotics efforts, and in plans for bilateral\nand multilateral cooperation to promote hemispheric socioeconomic reforms.",
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    "Economic Policy",
    "Foreign Affairs",
    "Health Policy",
    "Intelligence and National Security",
    "Latin American Affairs"
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