MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

Summit. Mike Moore in Montevideo.

Mike Moore Director of the World Trade Organisation, WTO, is in Montevideo, Uruguay for a two days conference on how to solve disputes in the framework of WTO and Mercosur.

The second edition (the first took place last year in Buenos Aires) of the II Annual Conference on Solving Trade Disputes in WTO and Mercosur will be held in Montevideo's Chamber of Commerce and Services.

Mr. Moore will lecture on "The WTO, prospects and challenges" and will then participate in a discussion panel on "The new WTO round, ¿what does it offer to Mercosur members?.

The conference is also in preparation of the tenth anniversary of the signing by Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay of the Asunción Treaty that is considered the founding stone of Mercosur to be celebrated next year.

New Zealander Mr. Moore is also schedule to hold a private meeting with Uruguayan president Dr. Jorge Batlle and the Ministers of Economy, Trade and Foreign Affairs of Mercosur member countries.

Florianopolis summit.

Open markets and free trade, cars, Chile, sugar, bicycles and foot and mouth disease are the main points of the Uruguayan agenda for the coming Mercosur summit to be held in Florianopolis, southern Brazil December 15th and 16th.

Uruguayan president Jorge Batlle is expected to stress, as he did in the recent Iberoamerican Panama summit, the importance of open markets and free trade in the context of a global world, in a attempt to open a debate on Mercosur tariffs.

The long debated car industry complementation agreement, apparently in its final stages, as well as the end to local sugar subsidies, effective next December 31st., and Argentine impediments to Uruguayan bicycle exports, are also of particular interest to Uruguay that has had difficulties in its sales to its greater trade partners.

Chile's full integration, (in suspense because of different tariff policies), as well as a co-ordinated sanitary preventive policy regarding foot and mouth disease that has scourged all Mercosur members in recent months, are expected to absorb much of discussion time in the coming presidential summit.

In the "unofficial" political agenda, a strong public support to the new democratic pos Fujimori process in Peru is expec