The President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, was invited to participate in the Summit of Leaders convened by the president of the South American giant, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
The Brazilian president invited the leaders of the other eleven countries of the region to the summit: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela.
The summit, scheduled for May 30, has as its “main objective to resume dialogue” between the countries of the region, “that have not met for many years,” explained the secretary for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, Gisela Padovan.
The Brazilian government expects the meeting to discuss the possibility of “returning to a purely South American integration mechanism” that is “permanent, inclusive and modern” and includes the twelve countries of the region, regardless of the color of their Government.
Padovan stressed that “it is very important” that the integration mechanism is not “fractionated”, marking distances with organizations promoted in recent decades such as Prosur or the Union of South American Nations (Unasur), an organization that is “paralyzed”, although Brazil and Argentina have just rejoined it.
Strengthened relationships. Relations between the South American giant and Venezuela are in a new productive stage with the coming to power of Lula da Silva.
Recently, the Venezuelan ambassador to Brazil, Manuel Vadell, presented the credentials to the Brazilian president.
President Maduro, for his part, said that the delivery of Manuel Vadell’s credentials to President Lula “is a big step.”
He commented that the fact “constitutes a new starting point for the consolidation of the union between both brother nations.”
