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ALBA Summit to Begin in Bolivia

CUBA, October 14, 2009. The 7th Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) will begin on Thursday in Bolivia, where Cuba, one of the organizations’s founding members, will be represented.

The meeting, of key importance in today’s world context, will also include the participation of Social Movements and Indigenous Peoples, and will be held in the city of Cochabamba, the capital of the Department of the same name, located in the central part of the South American nation.

Important regional and international issues will be debated during the two-day meeting of the heads of state or governmental representatives of ALBA member countries, like Ecuador, Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Dominica, Honduras, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Antigua and Barbuda.

This mechanism of integration, proposed by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, now takes another step forward, with the inclusion of social organization and movements representing the peoples in the region.

With this purpose, the Summit has scheduled a mass meeting at the Félix Carriles Stadium, the Venezuelan Communication and Information Ministry reports on its web site.

It will be an unprecedented meeting between the ALBA-TCP (Trade Agreement of the Peoples) of heads of state and government and the social movements, pointed out Bolivian Culture Minister Pablo Graux, cited by the official communiqué.

Present in Cochabamba will be representatives from social movements of 40 nations, which on Saturday will meet with the heads of state that will participate in the presidential summit, concludes the note. (Cubaminrex- ACN)

 

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