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Ecuador's Correa to ALBA Summit

ECUADOR, June 23, 2009. Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa is to travel Tuesday to the Venezuelan city of Valencia, to attend June 24 the Sixth Summit of the Bolivarian Alternative for Latin America and the Caribbean (ALBA).

This concerns a special meeting of the bloc's heads of States. It will formalize this country's entrance to this organization, according to an official note.

In addition of Ecuador, this event will also join Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Antigua and Barbuda as full members of the ALBA, so the number of countries has now reached nine.

Emerged in 2004 as a Cuban-Venezuelan integration project, the Bolivarian Alternative for Latin America and the Caribbean contrasted the Free Trade Agreement proposal the United States boosted with Latin American nations.

After this summit, Correa will go to New York, the United States, to attend Thursday a UN forum on international financial crisis.

The statesman will give a master lecture about the critical economic situation and actions adopted in his country to face it.

Foreign Minister Fander Falconi, Economic Policy Minister Diego Borja, Political Minister Ricardo Patiño and National Secretary of Migration Lorena Escudero accompany the Ecuadorian president. (Cubaminrex- PL)

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