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ALBA-TCP Summit on Ebola begins
Monday
Today at 9:00 am, with an official welcome to
attending authorities, will begin the Havana
Extraordinary Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for
the Peoples of Our America-Peoples Trade Agreement
(ALBA-TCP) on Ebola, to be attended by nine member
delegations from Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia,
Nicaragua, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Ecuador,
St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Santa Lucia.
Additionally participating will be Grenada, as well
as St. Kitts and Nevis, countries whose
incorporation into the alliance has been approved.
Likewise, a delegation from Haiti will attend as a
permanent invited participant of ALBA-TCP. Three
representatives from international organizations
will also participate, from the United Nations, the
Pan American Health Organization and the
Organization of Eastern Caribbean States.
The
meeting was organized based on the alliance’s
fundamental principles which include an emphasis on
the struggle against poverty and social exclusion,
as well as attention to global challenges, which, in
this case, includes the current Ebola epidemic which
has erupted in West Africa.
The
Summit has as its objectives the development of a
common response on the part of ALBA-TCP to the call
by UN Secretary General for a united effort to
confront the dangerous disease.
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