Translation of "SAFTA " (English → French) :

21. Notes that in August 2006, the SAARC Council of Ministers unanimously agreed that the India-Pakistan trade dispute under the SAFTA framework would be considered by SAARC Commerce Ministers before the 14th SAARC Summit in India on 3-4 April 2007; notes also that the EU has applied for and been granted SAARC observer status and will participate in the Summit; notes that the argument that trade must be linked to progress on the resolution of long-standing disputes between India and Pakistan underlies the delayed implementation of SAFTA; calls on both parties to continue political dialogue in tandem with trade negotiations; notes tha ...[+++]t consideration of items on the positive and negative lists is currently before the SAFTA Council; calls on the EU to offer any assistance required to facilitate this process and to ensure that real progress is made at the 14th SAARC Summit;

21. Notes that in August 2006, the SAARC Council of Ministers unanimously agreed that the India-Pakistan trade dispute under the SAFTA framework would be considered by SAARC Commerce Ministers before the 14th SAARC Summit in India on 3-4 April 2007; notes also that the EU has applied for and been granted SAARC observer status and will participate in the Summit; notes that the argument that trade must be linked to progress on the resolution of long-standing disputes between India and Pakistan underlies the delayed implementation of SAFTA; calls on both parties to continue political dialogue in tandem with trade negotiations; notes tha ...[+++]t consideration of items on the positive and negative lists is currently before the SAFTA Council; calls on the EU to offer any assistance required to facilitate this process and to ensure that real progress is made at the 14th SAARC Summit;

– Mr President, I would like to insert after the word ‘tandem’ the following text: ‘with trade negotiations; notes that consideration of items on the positive and negative lists is currently before the SAFTA Council’, and then we proceed with the text as is.

21. Urges India to redouble its efforts to develop SAARC (regional cooperation), SAFTA (free trade area) and SAPTA (preferential trade area),

If you remember, there were comments on a building-block approach—that they'd build up MERCOSUR until it became the South America free trade area, so it would be SAFTA versus NAFTA and then the two would crash heads.

Mr. Jayson Myers: First of all, in relation to not only the FTAA but also to what developments are taking place within Chile and our free trade agreement with Chile, and also in MERCOSUR, and the potential of negotiating SAFTA—the South Asian free trade agreement—in which Canada, of course, would not be a part but I think an important priority for regional trade and regional political issues in the area of South Asia, these are all areas where I think there's a great deal to be done, and the alliances and a number of other Canadian business associations and a number of Canadian businesses are actually heavily engaged in programs to assis ...[+++]t smaller companies to adjust.