Torrijos: Panama Trusts
in Future
President Martin
Torrijos said Panama is
now a different country,
and able to look at the
recently started year
with great confidence in
the future.
In a New Year message to
the country, the
president affirmed
Panama enjoys more
social justice,
solidarity, and equity
than five years ago, and
looks to the future with
optimism.
ó I believe this is a
country that is
recovering
self-reliance, ó
Torrijos stated, and
pointed out the
restructuring of public
finance, clear
management, harmony
between social and
foreign policy, as well
as trade, allowing his
prediction that this new
year has begun with
great collective
self-assurance.
Panama, he explained,
has signed free trade
deals with 50 percent of
the countries to which
it exports, and with the
previous administration,
that figure was only at
three percent.
The president also
sustained that in 2008,
exports will increase,
thus guaranteeing more
jobs, better prices, and
larger markets for
Panamanian products
abroad.
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