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ALBA Changes Its Name to Alliance
HAVANA, Cuba , Jun 25 (acn) The Bolivarian Alternative for Our Americas (ALBA) was renamed Alliance during its 6th Extraordinary Summit held in the Venezuelan City of Maracay on Wednesday.
The cooperation mechanism, now with nine members, created its Political, Economic and Social Councils and worked on preparations to establish a permanent secretariat during the recently concluded meeting, reported Prensa Latina news agency.
In relation to the change in the name, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez explained that it is not only a semantic modification, but a change in codes, sense and content as it is not longer a theoretical proposal but a regional and geographic political platform of power.
The declaration of the meeting expresses the consolidation of the group as a political, economic and social alliance in defense of independence, sovereignty, self-determination, identity and the interests of member nations against all forms of attempts of domination.
During the recently concluded Summit, ALBA received Ecuador, Saint Vicent and the Grenadines and Antigua and Barbuda as new members, joining Bolivia, Cuba , Dominica , Honduras , Nicaragua and Venezuela .
The Summit decided to change the bloc’s name to the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America- Trade Treaty of the Peoples (ALBA-TCP) as a reflection of the strengthening of the organization.
In addition to creating a Ministerial Council for Social Programs, ALBA members agreed to keep on working to consolidate a Zone of Economic Complementation for which a Ministerial Council of Economic Complementation will be set up.
Likewise, they decided to strengthen grand-national food production projects and the creation of ALBA’s University for the Peoples for the training of technicians and specialists needed to carry out ALBA projects and enterprises.
A working group on International Law, self-determination, respect for sovereignty and human rights coordinated by Bolivia was requested to be assembled in 60 days, as well as a Ministerial Council of Women.
ALBA projects cover the fields of telemedicine, tele-education, rural telephone services, regional integration in the energy sector and the creation of a working group to review the Industrial Property doctrine, among other agreements.
In a final evaluation of the meeting, President Chavez said ALBA’s advances were a sign that the multi-polar world is becoming a reality.
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El ALBA cambia nombre e inicia una nueva etapa
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