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ALBA: Strong Airs of Regional Integration
Challenges and opportunities for Latin American and Caribbean countries will center debates of the eighth ALBA Summit, to take place December 11-14 in this capital.
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Prensa Latina
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Challenges and opportunities for Latin American and Caribbean countries will center debates of the eighth ALBA Summit, to take place December 11-14 in this capital.
The meeting of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) will coincide with the first five years of the integrating mechanism.
The forum will be entitled ALBA-TCP: Fifth Anniversary: For independence, unity, and development of our peoples.
This mechanism was established on December 14, 2004 in Havana, when Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, signed the Joint Declaration for ALBA creation and the implementation agreement.
It was first named Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our America, but was baptized as Alliance in the June summit in Maracay, Venezuela. In that ocassion, the Political, Economic and Social Councils were created, and preparations were made to establish a permanent secretariat.
ALBA has grown along these five years, as it now comprises Nicaragua, Honduras, Ecuador, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, and Antigua and Barbuda, apart from Cuba and Venezuela.
Diplomatic sources interviewed by Prensa Latina affirmed the summit in Havana will also assess the ALBA-TCP results and prospects, and the state of negotiations in views of the Copenhagen conference.
In addition, it will allow recognizing the ALBA-TCP unquestionable progress along its first years of existence, and its efficient confirmation as political, economic and social alliance.
The meeting of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) will coincide with the first five years of the integrating mechanism.
The forum will be entitled ALBA-TCP: Fifth Anniversary: For independence, unity, and development of our peoples.
This mechanism was established on December 14, 2004 in Havana, when Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, signed the Joint Declaration for ALBA creation and the implementation agreement.
It was first named Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our America, but was baptized as Alliance in the June summit in Maracay, Venezuela. In that ocassion, the Political, Economic and Social Councils were created, and preparations were made to establish a permanent secretariat.
ALBA has grown along these five years, as it now comprises Nicaragua, Honduras, Ecuador, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, and Antigua and Barbuda, apart from Cuba and Venezuela.
Diplomatic sources interviewed by Prensa Latina affirmed the summit in Havana will also assess the ALBA-TCP results and prospects, and the state of negotiations in views of the Copenhagen conference.
In addition, it will allow recognizing the ALBA-TCP unquestionable progress along its first years of existence, and its efficient confirmation as political, economic and social alliance.