miércoles, 13 de mayo de 2009

Ministerial inaugurates with welcome to Cuba

Prague, may 13. The XIV Ministerial Conference of the European Union (UE) and the Group of River (GRIO) today was inaugurated in this capital with speeches that stood out the transcendency of the cooperation, at the time that welcomed to Cuba.

The chancellors of the Czech Republic, Jan Kohout, of Mexico, Patricia Espinosa, and the Police station of External Relationships of the community block, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, valued the Cuban presence and of other new members of the GRIO.

It strengthens the Latin American space with an agreement that expresses in a genuine way the voice of our towns and it is for it that we are glad the incorporation of Cuba, the Mexican holder said in it intervention.

Espinosa spoke on behalf of the presidency pro tempore of the GRIO, the same thing that Kohout for the headquarters biannual Czech of the UE. Both eulogized the presence of the delegation of the Island headed by the minister of External Relationships, Bruno Rodríguez Grill.

Cuba is part of the Latin American and Caribbean agreement, composed now by 23 countries, since November of 2008.

The world economic crisis and the renewable energy sources, the two main points of the calendar in Prague, were approached by Ferrero-Waldner, although with a call to the commitment of collaboration like answers to all these matters.

"Concrete projects of cooperation, the consolidation of a bottom of investments and of attendance, there are not better recipes to face the problems that attempt today against the humanity", considered the discharge it would work.

In the date a Combined Declaration will be adopted which a special section will be added consecrated to reinforce the international alert on the flu TO (H1N1), as well as a recognition to Mexico for its efforts to combat the virus.

The text, as he knew in advance Presses Latin, will reaffirm the opposition from both parts to the coercive unilateral measures contrary to the international laws.

Although doesn't mention in an explicit way the economic blockade that Cuba suffers on the part of United States for almost 50 years, the reference points in that address, the same thing that in the rejection to all the forms of protectionism around the rich countries.

On Thursday the deliberations are programmed among the Troika of the UE with Chile, Mexico, Central America and the Market Common of the South (MERCOSUR).(Fausto Triana)

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