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Italy and Colombia discuss bilateral trade

28/05/2007

Italian minister for foreign affairs, Massimo D'Alema, recently held a meeting with vice president of Colombia, Francisco Santos Calderon, to discuss ways to improve bilateral trade.

Italy’s National Institute for Foreign Trade, ICE, described Colombia as a country that is at the forefront of foreign trade; a country that is economically free and open. It added that the country has an important geographical location as a member of the Andean Community of Nations—also comprising Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru—and benefiting from special customs agreements with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

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