CELAC Draws Up Plan to Eliminate Poverty & Malnutrition in Region by 2024

CELAC Draws Up Plan to Eliminate Poverty & Malnutrition in Region by 2024
By Ewan Robertson
Published on Jun 24th 2014 at 8.57pm

Merida, 24th June 2014 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) has advanced toward the agreement of a common plan to tackle social and developmental problems in the region.

Representatives of CELAC member states met with various regional organisations and international development bodies in Caracas, Venezuela for a three day conference last week to draw up a common plan to eliminate poverty and guarantee social rights in every country in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The CELAC was founded in Caracas in December 2011, and is composed of every country in the Americas with the exception of the United States and Canada.

During last week’s conference, Venezuelan diplomat and general secretary of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), Ali Rodriguez Araque said that the achievement of regional development goals was dependent on the establishment of common policies in the use of primary resources.

“We have great contrasts in the region. On one hand we have high poverty levels, and on the other, we have the potential of huge wealth…only a strategy is missing,” he said.

At the end of the conference, those present released a statement announcing the creation of the Project for a Strategic Agenda of Regional Coordination in Social Matters. The statement was signed by the organisations participating in the conference, including UNESCO, ECLAC, FAO UNASUR, MERCOSUR, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), and PETROCARIBE.

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