Mercosur president proposes creating United States of S America

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MONTEVIDEO, July 13 (Xinhuanet) -- Former Argentine president and
President of the Commission of Permanent Representatives of the Common
Market of the South (Mercosur), Eduardo Duhalde, proposed the creation of
the "United States of South America" to concretize the idea of regional int
egration.

In a conversation published Tuesday by Observa on its Website, Duhalde
said a decisive step was taken in that direction at last Mercosur summit,
which was held in Argentina.

"We have started to move along the path of the future integration of our
republics," said the former president of Argentina.

According to Duhalde, the decision of creating what has already been
dubbed as "the United States of South America" was developed by the
presidents of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay during the
three-party talks held last week between Mercosur, the Andean Community
(ANCOM) and Chile to advance the negotiations in the direction.

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