Summit Of The Americas At A Glance

April 20, 1998 / 2:13 AM EDT / AP

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Highlights of agreements reached by the 34 nations attending the second Summit of the Americas:

Set a 2010 goal for 100 percent of the hemisphere's children to have access to at least a primary-school education; 75 percent for high school. Some $6.3 billion in loan pledges by international lending agencies like the World Bank to improve teacher training, textbook availability and training for women and displaced workers.
Agreed to establish a Multilateral Counterdrug Alliance to coordinate the war on drugs in the Americas. In part, it is being set up to soothe irritation felt by Latin American nations toward the current U.S. drug certification process in which the United States withholds foreign aid to nations it considers unworthy allies on drug issues.
Gave support to the creation of an office, as part of the International Commission for Human Rights, to help resolve human-rights cases involving attacks and threats of violence against members of the news media. Some 200 journalists have been killed in the Americas since 1994.
Embraced a package designed to make it easier to start and operate small businesses, including easier credit terms, and a simplification of paperwork for owning homes and property. The U.S. Agency for International Development is to provide dlrs 120 million over three years for small businesses.
Affirmed commitments to better train judges, attack corruption, promote worker and migrant rights, and curb child labor with help of $5.9 billion in World Bank and other international assistance.
Endorsed moves to develop Internet commerce and improve air, sea and land trade corridors.
Set 2002 target for reducing diseases such as pneumonia, meningitis, rubella and mumps and eradicating measles by 2000.