CUBA, December 20, 2007.- With the welcoming of 12 regional heads of State, this south central city will host Thursday the Fourth Petrocaribe Summit. This energy integration event starts labors today with the meeting of ministers of the sector, before the statesmen"s gathering that will be run at the Jagua Hotel of this city. Meanwhile, workers and technicians put the final touches on the oil refinery in Cienfuegos, of the Cuban-Venezuelan company PDV-CUPET, whose Friday opening will be the end of the Summit. Leaders from Venezuela, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Guyana, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Haiti, Jamaica, Nicaragua and Cuba will attend the meeting, while Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago will be for a first time as observers. Representatives from the Caribbean Community, the Association of American States and the Organization of East Caribbean States will be also present in this port city, 155 miles southeastern Havana. Petrocaribe emerged in the Summit held in the Venezuelan eastern city of Puerto La Cruz on June 29, 2005, and subsequently developed meetings at the same level in Montego Bay (Jamaica) in September, and Caracas, in August. Nicaragua and Haiti joined as full members of the mechanism in the Venezuelan summit. Statistics will evaluate this time the course of accords adopted in previous encounters and exchanged joint efforts to strengthen Petrocaribe as a space for exemplary cooperation and regional integration. (Cubaminrex-PL)
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