The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced that the heads of State and Government who participated in the XXIV Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) unanimously approved the Declaration of Principles and Commitments of this cooperation mechanism.
This declaration has been agreed upon by the leaders and high representatives who attended the great meeting, and was issued under the name Special Declaration of the XXIV ALBA Summit: Reaffirmation of the principles, objectives, commitments and flags of struggle of the ALBA-TCP, twenty years after its foundation.
He explained that the statement ratifies the path announced twenty years ago, when the ALBA-TCP was created by initiatives of commanders Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez under the principles of respect for independence and sovereignty, integration, solidarity cooperation and complementarity, among others. .
A statement was also approved on the occasion of the Bicentennial of the Battle of Ayacucho. He said that the text ends with the harangue that General Antonio José de Sucre addressed to the independence troops on the morning of December 9, 1824, shortly before charging against the imperial troops: «Soldiers, your fate depends on your efforts today. from South America; another day of glory will crown your admirable perseverance. Soldiers, Long live the Liberator! Long live Bolívar, savior of Peru!
Below are the verbatim points of the Declaration of Principles and Commitments approved this Saturday at the summit:
- We commemorate with deep American sentiment the thirtieth anniversary of that hug between Commanders Hugo Chávez Frías and Fidel Castro Ruz, which marked the course of the contemporary history of Latin America and the Caribbean. We remember that young soldier full of ideas, goals and dreams, who fulfilled his dream of meeting a fundamental figure of dignity and resistance for the entire Latin American and Caribbean continent, such as Commander Fidel Castro Ruz.
- We celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the founding of our great Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean integration and union, historic and unprecedented, with emphasis on the social dimension, which from its conception took the human being as the foundation and epicenter of integration, and committed to form relationships based on solidarity, complementarity, justice and cooperation.
- We reaffirm our unavoidable commitment and responsibility to meet the needs and defend the interests of our people, to whom we owe, always attached to the internal legal order and respect for the norms of International Law and the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter.
- We ratify our unwavering commitment to the defense of democratic values, respect for the popular will expressed at the polls and the promotion of inclusive political systems that guarantee the active participation of all sectors of society. We strongly condemn the use of hate speech, disinformation and polarization strategies that seek to destabilize our democracies, erode peaceful coexistence between our peoples and achieve coups d’état.
- We highlight the importance of reinvigorating and deepening the founding principles and values of ALBA-TCP, in a challenging world, in which fascism and neo-fascism threaten the right of peoples to enjoy peace.
- We ratify the importance and our commitment in defense of the “Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace which, 10 years after its approval at the II CELAC Summit in Havana, Cuba, in January 2014, remains fully validity.
- We reaffirm our conviction to build foreign policies that prioritize depatriarchalization, climate justice and decolonization as fundamental principles for the transformation of our societies. We advocate for the eradication of all forms of oppression and discrimination based on gender, ethnicity or culture, promoting systems of justice and coexistence that respect the dignity and rights of all people, in harmony with our Mother Earth and the peoples. indigenous.
- We strongly reject the arbitrary, illegal and criminal unilateral coercive measures imposed by the United States government against Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. These actions seriously affect the well-being and prosperity of our people and constitute a systematic aggression aimed at imposing an agenda aligned with their geopolitical interests. Likewise, they represent a flagrant violation of International Law and the United Nations Charter.
- “We reiterate our strong condemnation of the genocidal and illegal economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the government of the United States of America against Cuba and we highlight the historic support of the member states of the Alliance for the United Nations General Assembly Resolution.” “Need to end the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.”
- We demand the exclusion of Cuba from the spurious and arbitrary unilateral list of countries supposedly sponsoring terrorism prepared by the United States Department of State, which has a negative impact on all spheres of Cuban society and the well-being of its people, as the criminal economic war intensifies and increases the difficulties of entering international trade, carrying out financial operations and acquiring basic supplies.
- We reaffirm the just demand to receive reparations and compensation for colonialism, the horrors of slavery, transatlantic human trafficking and the genocide perpetrated against indigenous populations.
- We repudiate the demands on access to financing for the development of the peoples of the South, with the imposition of a vision that does not take into account the vulnerabilities to the negative impacts of climate change, especially for small island developing States.
- We agreed to coordinate a joint strategy to defend the inalienable right of the people of Haiti to enjoy peace and the authentic exercise of their sovereignty and independence in multilateral spaces such as CELAC.
- We express our strongest support for the inalienable right of the people of Puerto Rico to self-determination and full independence, as a Latin American and Caribbean nation. We accompany the people of Puerto Rico in their fight for independence and national sovereignty.
- We express our firmest repudiation and condemnation of the terrorist actions perpetrated by the State of Israel against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, and its responsibility for perpetuating a spiral of violence and destabilization in the region. These actions have caused the death of citizens of different nationalities and the brutal murder of thousands of innocent civilians, including children, the elderly and women, triggering one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes of our time. In that sense, we approve the Special Communiqué on Palestine annexed to this Declaration.
- We renew our aspirations for the fall of imperialism and the emergence of a new multipolar order, marked by relations of respect and cooperation for the economic, political and social development of the peoples of the entire world. We applaud the fundamental role of the BRICS and the entry of some countries of our Alliance into this bloc of countries, as a positive step on the path towards the prosperity of our continent.
- We gladly accompany the preparations for the Bicentennial of Bolivia, today the Plurinational State of Bolivia, which in 2025 will commemorate 200 years of Independence, resistance and struggle. We celebrate its history, forging its identity over generations together with the 36 Indigenous and Peasant Nations, as a democratic, free and sovereign country.
Maduro Moros showed those present two symbols of the Latin American struggles: a saber carried by the Liberator Simón Bolívar, which he used to command the patriots during the Battle of Carabobo (June 24, 1821), and a sword that the people of Lima to Bolívar, liberator of Peru, in October 1825, Telesur note highlights.
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