World

Bolivia

Peru

Venezuela

Trinidad
&
Caribbean

 

Guyana to host Latin American summit





AFP
GEORGETOWN
Petroleumworld.com 02 26 06

Latin American leaders will meet in Guyana Friday for a Rio Group summit to discuss social issues facing the region including rampant poverty, Guyanese Foreign Minister Rudy Insanally said Saturday.

Presidents Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil, Michele Bachelet of Chile, Nicanor Duarte Frutos of Paraguay and Rafael Correa of Ecuador have confirmed their attendance, Insanally said.

"Their aim is to see whether they can come together with some initiatives to address social issues," Insanally told AFP.

The summit opens Friday with a speeches by Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo and the representative of the Rio Group's current presidency, Argentina. A full working session will be held Saturday.

Guyana is the first English-speaking Caribbean country to host a summit of the Rio Group, a Latin American forum created in 1986 to widen political cooperation in the region.

AFP 25 0132 GMT 02 07

Copyright© 1999 AFP. All Rights Reserved.

 

 

Send this story to a friend

Your feedback is important to us!

We invite all our readers to share with us
their views and comments about this article.

Write to editor@petroleumworld.com

Any question or suggestions, please write to:
editor@petroleumworld.com

Best Viewed with IE 5.01+
Windows NT 4.0, '95, '98 and ME +/ 800x600 pixels

Contact:editor@petroleumworld.com/phones:(58 412) 996 3730 or 952 5301
www.petroleumworld.com-Editor:Elio Ohep /Publisher-Producer:Elio Ohep.
Contact Email: editor@petroleumworld.com
Legal Information. CopyRight © 2002, Elio Ohep.- All rights reserved

This site is a public free site and it contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner.We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of business, environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have chosen to view the included information for research, information, and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission fromPetroleumworld or the copyright owner of the material.