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Dr. Antonio Betancourt L. Secretary General

Dr. Antonio Betancourt, Secretary General

The Summit Council has been very active and had a strong Washington, DC and international presence through the 1980s to the late 1990s. From 1999, we chose to work under the auspices of the Universal Peace Federation (www.upf.org) in order to help it become a well-established international non-governmental organization in more than 100 countries. Indeed, we helped UPF to achieve that goal. In mid-2008, we decided it was time for us once again to take our place in the history-making of the world, particularly in the area of peace and development as we did in the ‘80s and ‘90s.

The Democratization of Access to Money and Credit:

The World Economy – Strengthening Democracy through Credit and Ownership

Ways Religious People Can Alleviate Suffering in North Korea

What can religious people do to alleviate suffering in North Korea and help relieve persistent tension on the Korean peninsula?

As a Christian, a few measures come to mind for Christians to achieve these important goals. How much they apply to members of other religions is for them to decide. But first, I want to touch on some impediments.

President to Muslim World: “Americans are not your enemy”

In his first interview with Arab media, on January 27, U.S. President Barack Obama offered a bold change to America’s relations with the Muslim world.

“My job is to communicate to the American people that the Muslim world is filled with extraordinary people who simply want to live their lives and see their children live better lives,” President Obama told Al Arabiya, a 24-hour Arabic-language news channel based in Dubai. “My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy.”

Obama, Blair on Faith

U.S. President Barack Obama for the first time addressed several thousand people gathered for the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC. In part, he said: “We know … that whatever our differences, there is one law that binds all great religions together.

Fifth Summit of the Americas: Obama to Engage Western Hemisphere Leaders

The fifth Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, scheduled to be held on April 17-19, 2009, will be the first hemispheric forum for U.S. President Barack Obama to engage with leaders from across Latin America and the Caribbean. The Port of Spain Summit will also be the first meeting of all 34 democratic heads of government from Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada, and the United States since the contentious 2005 Summit in Mar del Plata, Argentina.

The New US Administration: Can It Meet the Expectations of the World?

Expectations remain high that the new American leadership can change the world in 2009. With a troubled domestic economy priority one, what other issues on the world stage can the United States realistically tackle in its first year? This session of the 2009 World Economic Forum annual meeting, held on Jan. 29 in Davos, Switzerland, examined the global challenges facing the U.S., its key principles and core objectives going forward.

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