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Caracas, April 27 (RHC) With an intense political agenda of unity, transparency and international visits, Venezuela closed this week today, in which the celebration of the XXIII ALBA-TCP Summit and the opening of an office of the Criminal Court stood out. International in the South American nation.
The summit meeting of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Treaty -ALBA-TCP-, was, without a doubt, the highlight with the arrival in Caracas of the heads of State and Government of its 10 member nations, or delegation holders.
At this meeting, three documents were approved that renew and strengthen the conception of its founders, commanders Fidel Castro (1926-2016) and Hugo Chávez (1954-2013), of advancing on the path of union, dialogue and political agreement.
Which, as the Final Declaration says, must be “based on the principles of solidarity, social justice, cooperation and economic complementarity.”
To this end, the ALBA 2030 Strategic Agenda was approved by the rulers, which, with seven vertices, constitutes a great leap in the short, medium and long-term projection of materializing the concepts outlined above.
The document proposed the creation of the ALBA-TCP Cooperation and Development Agency; study and approve the Petrocaribe relaunch plan in the new stage; approval of the ALBA Food Plan; and sign and definitively adopt the People’s Trade Treaty.
The latter as a zone of fair trade and economic complementarity in respect to the development levels of each nation, a proposal that was born from Bolivia some time ago and that the regional bloc adopted as its own.
Also create a special program of scientific, cultural, communication and academic development; the relaunch of the ALBA Health Plan; and advance the creation of an ALBA-TCP agency to mitigate the impact of the climate emergency.
The final Declaration summarized the sentiment of the speeches of the leaders, who explained with their visions and political perspectives the threats that loom in the region and the world, as well as what to do to continue consolidating the Latin American and Caribbean mechanism.
As stated at the meeting, ALBA-TCP “raises the flag today to be an alternative to the extreme right and fascism in the world.”
This statement was evidenced in a special statement in solidarity with Palestine, which demanded a just and lasting solution with the creation of two States, with East Jerusalem as its capital, and guaranteeing the right of return for refugees.
He also called on the international community to impose an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and stop the genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity against its population, which violates the principles and purposes of the UN Charter and international law.
Transcendent for its meaning in the current context and future, was the special invitation for Palestine to participate in the 20-year ALBA-TCP Summit, scheduled to take place in Havana, Cuba, next December.
In its 22 points, the Final Declaration expressed its “strongest rejection of the unusual raid” of the Mexican embassy in Quito by the government of Ecuador, which created “a dangerous precedent that threatens the peace and stability of our region.” ”.
He ratified the strong condemnation of the “genocidal and illegal economic, commercial and financial blockade” imposed by the United States against Cuba, and demanded the removal of the island from the “spurious and arbitrary unilateral list” of countries supposedly sponsoring terrorism.
The text also expressed its solidarity with Venezuela in the face of the imperial attack to reissue new sanctions and with its electoral process that will take place on July 28, 2024.
In the week that closes, the extraordinary meeting between the Government of Colombia and the guerrilla of the National Liberation Army concluded, and they announced a new meeting in Caracas of the Dialogue Table between May 20 and 25.
Likewise, the attorney general of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, left an office of that court open here, while the Venezuelan State and the ICC agreed to advance legal complementarity and Human Rights.
And as part of the process leading up to the July 28 elections, a UN Technical Team arrived in Venezuela, the fifth in recent weeks, which spoke with Foreign Minister Yván Gil and authorities of the National Electoral Council. (Source: Prensa Latina).
