Heads of state pose for family photo at the
Eropean Union-Latam summit, in Madrid May 17, 2002. (L-R, first row) French President
Jacques Chirac, El Salvador's President Francisco Flores, Costa Rican President Abel
Pacheco, Chilean President Ricardo Lagos, Argentine President Eduardo Duhalde, European
Union Commission President Romano Prodi, Mexican President Vicente Fox, Spanish Prime
Minister Jose Maria Aznar, Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Danish Prime
Minister Anders Rasmussen, Bolivian President Jorge Quiroga, Columbian President Andres
Pastrana, Ecuadorian President Gustavo Noboa, Finnish President Tarja Halonen and
Guatemala's President Alfonso Portillo. (L-R, second row) Luxembourg Prime Minister
Jean-Claude Juncker, Belize's President Said Musa, Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel,
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, Dominican
Republic's President Hipolito Mejia, Panama's President Mireya Moscoso, Haiti's President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Guyana's President Bharat
Jagdeo, Nicaragua's President Enrique Bolaņos, Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo,
Uruguayan President Jorge Battle, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, Barbados's Prime
Minister Owen Seymour Arthur, Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt and Dutch Prime
Minister Wim Kok. (L-R, back row) Santa Lucia's ambassador to Brussels Edwin Laurent,
unidentified, Saint Kitts and Nevis Foreign Minister Timothy Harris, Jamaica's President
Perciva, Dominica's President Vernon Lorden Shaw, Cuban vice-president Carlos Large,
Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson, Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso,
British Prime Miniter Tony Blair, unidentified, unidentified, unidentified. Nearly 50
heads of state and government from the European Union and Latin America began talks on
forging closer economic and political ties between their regions. REUTERS/SERGIO PEREZ
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