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Chávez announces Ecuador’s official
entry into ALBA
CARACAS, June 3.—Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez
today informed that Ecuador’s official incorporation
into the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas
(ALBA) is to take place at a meeting that should be
attended by all the member nation presidents.
In a
statement on the Venezolana de Televisión’s “Dando y
Dando” program, Chávez affirmed that President
Rafael Correa had ratified his country’s entry into
the regional mechanism.
He
announced that the meeting to officially inaugurate
Ecuador as part of ALBA is scheduled for June 24 in
the rural area of Carabobo, and affirmed that ALBA
is an integration mechanism different from any
process preceding it on the continent, and which
makes emphasis on fighting poverty and social
exclusion.
The
current member states are Venezuela, Nicaragua,
Dominica, Bolivia, Cuba, Honduras, and St. Vincent
and the Grenadines.
President Hugo Chávez and the leader of the Cuban
Revolution, Fidel Castro, signed the constitution of
the regional platform on December 14, 2004 in
Havana. (PL)
Translated by Granma International
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