Chávez discusses
ALBA Summit with Cuban delegation
CARACAS, November 22.— Venezuelan President Hugo
Chávez received in Miraflores Palace a Cuban
delegation headed by Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, vice
president of the Council of Ministers, as part of
preparations for the upcoming ALBA Summit.
According to a presidential press release, the
private meeting takes place in the framework of the
meeting of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples
of Our America, scheduled for December 14-15 in
Havana.
Other members of the delegation included Jorge
Luis Sierra, likewise vice president of the Council
of Ministers; various department heads; and Rogelio
Polanco, the Cuban ambassador in that South American
nation.
According to the press release, the Venezuelan
delegation comprised Foreign Minister Nicolás Maduro
and a group of ministers, among them Energy and Oil
Minister Rafael Ramírez.
Recently Chávez spoke on the points to be
discussed at the summit, related to establishing
grannacional (across-nation) enterprises, the
ALBA bank and other projects for political, economic,
and social integration.
The alliance, founded in December of 2004, is
composed of Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Cuba,
Dominica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, San Vicente
and the Grenadines, and Venezuela. (PL)
