The 22nd ALBA-TCP Summit will be held in Cuba

According to the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the meeting will be appropriate to celebrate the 18th anniversary of the creation of the regional mechanism, as well as to exchange developments and challenges in ALBA-TCP, for the benefit of member states.

Within the framework of the anniversary celebrations, the National Council of People’s Power will hold an extraordinary session on this day, at the Palacio de las Convenciones in the capital, at the invitation of the Council of State.

On his Twitter account, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodriguez, indicated that the appointment would mean “the celebration of 18 years of cooperation, solidarity and integration between the countries of the Latin American and Caribbean bloc”.

ALBA-TCP was created on December 14, 2004 through an agreement signed in Havana between the then presidents of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, and Cuba, Fidel Castro, as a response to the Free Trade Area of ​​the Americas (FTAA). by the United States and finally rejected by Latin America in Mar del Plata, Argentina, in 2005.

Since its establishment until now, it has maintained solidarity, integration, justice and cooperation as basic principles for its course of action and for relations between member states.

It is also a political, economic and social alliance to defend the independence, self-determination and identity of peoples in accordance with their principles.

The Political Coordination Mechanism consists of ten countries: Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Grenada, and Cuba.

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