Havana, June 24, 2021.- Within the framework of the commemoration of the Bicentennial of the Battle of Carabobo, the XIX Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Trade Treaty of the Towns (ALBA-TCP).
United in an alliance for life and independence, the Heads of State and Government and other representatives present, examined the current challenges in the region and the situation derived from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The participants in the XIX Summit reaffirmed their rejection of the imposition of unilateral coercive measures against Alliance countries such as Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba.
When declaring the meeting opened, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said that "the emancipatory, liberating and geopolitical doctrine that the liberators founded is fully in force today and we demonstrate it here at ALBA."
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, thanked the support of the governments represented at the Summit during the approval of the Resolution against the blockade of Cuba in the General Assembly of the United Nations. He confirmed that his country "maintains its will to solidarity" in the midst of a pandemic that has exacerbated the division of the world and the fragility of underdeveloped economies.
In its Final Declaration, the Summit welcomed the return of constitutional order in Bolivia, the installation of the new National Assembly in Venezuela and the preparation of the next electoral process in Nicaragua.
They also reiterated their willingness to cooperate in facing global environmental challenges, calling for the full implementation of the Paris Agreement, adopted at the 21st Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
As part of the revitalization of the ALBA-TCP instances, the member countries gave their approval to the new distinctive banner of the Alliance.
The delegations present celebrated the 200 years of the Battle of Carabobo under the leadership and visionary character of the Liberator Simón Bolívar, recognizing the historical significance of this military feat as a milestone that sealed the independence of Venezuela.
ALBA-TCP once again ratified its commitment to genuinely Latin American and Caribbean integration, to multilateralism and the principles and purposes of the United Nations Charter and International Law, in line with the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as Peace Zone.
(Cubaminrex)