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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: bold">February 4, 2005<br>
No. A/13</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: bold">MINISTER PETERSON TO MEET WITH MINISTER RACHID OF PARAGUAY</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif">International Trade Minister Jim Peterson will meet with the Paraguayan Foreign Affairs
Minister and current <i>Pro Tempore </i>Chair of Mercosur [Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and
Uruguay], Leila Rachid de Cowles, on February 7.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif">At their meeting, Minister Peterson and Minister Rachid will initiate a trade and
investment dialogue between Canada and Mercosur in the context of the Free Trade
Area of the Americas (FTAA).</span></span></p>
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<p style="text-indent: -1in; margin-left: 1in"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: bold">Event:</span><span>          </span>Photo opportunity (open coverage)</span></span></p>
<p style="text-indent: -1in; margin-left: 1in"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: bold">Date:</span><span>            </span>Monday, February 7, 2005</span></span></p>
<p style="text-indent: -1in; margin-left: 1in"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: bold">Time:</span><span>            </span>1:00 p.m.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-indent: -1in; margin-left: 1in"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: bold">Location:</span><span>     </span>Colonel By Room, 4th Floor</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span>                     </span>Government Conference Centre</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span>                     </span>2 Rideau Street</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span>                     </span>Ottawa, Ontario</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif">For more information, please contact:</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif">Jacqueline LaRocque<br>
Director of Communications<br>
Office of the Minister of International Trade<br>
(613) 992-7332</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif">Media Relations Office<br>
International Trade Canada<br>
(613) 995-1874<br>
</span></span><a href="https://bac-lac.wayback.archive-it.org/web/20070221203240/http://www.international.gc.ca/"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="color: #0000ff"><span style="text-decoration: underline">http://www.international.gc.ca</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></p>
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