The integration of the member countries of ALBA-TCP will focus on regional development and the peoples'' sovereignty, according to the final declaration of the 13th Summit of that mechanism.
The heads of government and representatives from 11 countries that currently make up the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples' Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) ratified the principles of solidarity, cooperation and complementariness among their countries.
The document, approved on Sunday in Havana, notes ALBA's demand for the United States to change its Cuban policy, including an immediate end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade and to subversive, illegal and covert actions that violate the peoples' sovereignty and right to self-determination.
The final declaration also expressed solidarity with the just and historic demand from the Plurnational State of Bolivia on its right to access the sea with sovereignty, and congratulated that South American country for its recent election as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council starting in 2015.
The parties involved in the peace talks in Colombia were congratulated by the participants in the ALBA-TCP Summit, who repeated their support for a final agreement to end the conflict and build stable and lasting peace in the country.
Argentina and its struggle to defend its sovereignty over the Malvinas, Georgias and South Sandwich islands, and its national dignity, sovereignty and free determination from the attacks by the vulture funds were other issues supported by the 13th ALBA-TCP Summit.
The ALBA members committed to maintaining and deepening cooperation with Haiti, as well as supporting all efforts by the region and other countries of the world to rebuild Haiti's economy and society.
Other agreements dealt with the Caribbean peoples' right to receive fair and differentiated treatment and the climate crisis as one of the greatest challenges being faced by humankind.
ALBA will call a meeting of negotiators and foreign ministers from the member countries to coordinate the bloc's stances prior to the 21st Conference of the Parties of the Convention, scheduled for 2015 in Paris, France.
The regional struggle to prevent and curb the Ebola epidemic by ALBA-TCP and CARICOM was lauded at the summit, which called to continue coordinating efforts and strictly following up on the compliance of the agreements reached at the Extraordinary ALBA-TCP Summit on Ebola.
Another task to be undertaken by the regional group will be the design of concrete strategies and actions to build and develop the Complementary Economic Zone ALBA-TCP-Petrocaribe-CARICOM-MERCOSUR as an area of economic-productive complementariness.
According to the final declaration, a meeting of the ALBA-TCP member countries on Miracle Mission in Caracas will be held in January 2015 to assess, plan and propose the extension of that program.
In addition, the ALBA-TCP Council of Economic Complementation will meet on February 23, 2015, in Havana to analyze proposals to boost actions in the economic sphere of the organization.
A political council of ALBA-TCP will be held on February 24, 2015, in Havana, in the framework of celebrations on the 120th anniversary of the resumption of the wars for independence in Cuba.