Caracas: The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples’ Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) today renewed its commitment to unity and cooperation in the face of threats to the stability of the region.
At the end of the XIX Summit of ALBA-TCP Heads of State and Government, held in Caracas, the high authorities of the bloc ratified the will of genuinely Latin American and Caribbean integration, which would make it possible to confront the claims of imperialist domination.
In this sense, the member countries of the Alliance highlighted the need to strengthen the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) as a mechanism for political agreement that brings together the states of the region, based on the principle of unity in diversity.
The final declaration of the meeting also welcomed the return of constitutional order in Bolivia, and the efforts of President Luis Arce, both domestically and internationally, to move towards the economic reactivation of the South American country.
The ALBA-TCP reiterated its recognition of the legitimate authorities of Venezuela and celebrated the upcoming holding of regional and municipal elections, an expression of the solid participatory and leading democracy of the Venezuelan people.
Likewise, the integration mechanism underlined the support for the Government of Nicaragua, and condemned the repeated destabilizing attempts against the Central American nation by the United States, in order to interfere in the development of the upcoming elections.
The Alliance also reaffirmed the condemnation of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by Washington against Cuba, as well as the rejection of the discrediting campaign promoted by the United States government against Cuban medical cooperation, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
In the health field, the ALBA-TCP countries urged universal immunization against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus disease, as well as ensuring an urgent, equitable, supportive, and affordable distribution of vaccines, supplies and equipment.
The integration mechanism also recognized the right of the Caribbean countries to receive fair, special and differentiated treatment; we reaffirm the unconditional and necessary support for the defense and promotion of their just claims and reparations.
He also rejected the actions of the Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Luis Almagro, who has led this multilateral organization down a path of nonsense, by legitimizing violent actions, interventions in internal affairs and ruptures of the constitutional order in some countries of the region.
Finally, the ALBA-TCP agreed to promote the development of the complementary economic zone ALBA-Petro Caribe as a model of productive and technological development.
