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Ecuador may rejoin Peru, Colombia in EU trade talks

Feb 9--Ecuador may rejoin Peru and Colombia in talks toward a free-trade agreement between the Andean nations and the European Union, Peruvian Foreign Trade Minister Martin Perez said.

9 de febrero de 2010

Ecuador, which abandoned the talks in 2008, will probably rejoin negotiations in the “coming weeks,” slowing efforts to reach an agreement with the EU, Perez said today.

“This could delay the whole negotiation process,” Perez said in a speech to business executives in Lima. “We’ll have to become a bloc and that will cause certain delays in the implementation and activation of the accord.”
 
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