ALBA Summit to meet in Cumana, Venezuela

The extraordinary summit of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of our America (ALBA)will meet next week in Cumana, Sucre state, Venezuela, announced today the Presidential press office.

An official note indicated that the presidents of the member countries will benefit from the occasion to make a balance and analyze the perspectives for the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago to be held April 17 to 19.

"We are going to summon the ALBA in Cumana, very near Trinidad. We the presidents of the initiative are going to be debating for several hours", said president Hugo Chavez in an interview on board the presidential plane, according to the note.Cumana is the capital of the state of Sucre, in the northeast of Venezuela, with coasts in the Caribbean Sea and a little over 434 miles from Caracas.Besides the representatives of the members of ALBA (Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Venezuela) the president of Paraguay, Fernando Lugo, has been invited according to previous reports that include in the agenda the proposal of a common currency and development projects.He said the agenda corresponds to an unstoppable dynamics based in an intense work seeking to strengthen alternative, geopolitical relations in the economic, energy, social and cultural fields.

This is part of the great project. The national project Simon Bolivar cannot be understood without a geopolitical framework, to be feasible, this requires a pluripolar world", Chavez said and asserted that preps in Caracas advance to host the Second Summit Africa-South America in September this year."We are working for the Africa Summit in Caracas next September. All Africa and South America at presidential level. Caracas will be the epicenter of the geopolitical game", he stressed.

He highlighted that the advance of South initiatives from Venezuela and other nations over the last years, "has reached maturity, pre-maturity or development."

(Prensa Latina)