Caracas (AFP) – The ALBA bloc requested on Wednesday, April 24, “effective cooperation” to help solve the serious political and security crisis facing Haiti, and insisted on demanding non-intervention in the presidential elections on July 28 in Venezuela.
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“We claim the urgent need” for “effective cooperation” for Haiti so “that it can advance on the path towards lasting peace and sustainable development,” the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), integrated for Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Grenada and Cuba.
The bloc, which held its XXIII summit in Caracas with the presence of the leaders of the countries that make up the alliance, stressed that cooperation must be done “in full respect for its sovereignty and in rejection of the interventionism scheme imposed by imperial interests.”
“The sister Republic of Haiti faces a new and very serious crisis,” said the President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, after recalling the situation in Haiti remains complicated despite the appointment of the transitional presidential council.
ALBA also welcomed “the electoral process in Venezuela, which will take place on July 28, 2024” and asked that the process be carried out “without interventions of any kind that undermine the integrity and transparency of its democratic process.”
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, thanked the bloc for its support in the midst of this new electoral year and reiterated the complaints of “attacks” on his country.
The presidents of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega; Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel; Bolivia, Luis Arce; and the prime ministers of Antigua and Barbuda and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Gaston Browne and Ralph Gonsalves respectively, were also present at the Summit.
The leaders also reiterated their condemnation of the “genocide” in Gaza and invited Palestine to participate in the celebration of the 20 years of the creation of the bloc.
ALBA was born in 2004 by the now deceased presidents Hugo Chávez (Venezuela) and Fidel Castro (Cuba), in response to Washington's failed project to create the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
The last ALBA summit was held in December 2022 in Havana.
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