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CELAC-EU summit addresses new strategic partnership
Heads of Government in Latin America and the Caribbean met behind closed doors in Santiago, Chile a few hours after host President Sebastián Piñera Echenique called for a new strategic partnership in light of a phenomenon that left Europe in crisis and Latin America gaining prominence in exports of goods to the continent.
President Donald Ramotar (left) meets President of Chile Sebastián Piñera Echenique at the First Summit of the Community of Latin America and Caribbean States (CELAC).
According to a GINA statement, he told Heads of Government gathered in Chile for the First Summit of the Community of Latin America and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the First CELAC-European Summit that a 13 percent increase in exports per year in Latin American countries is a clear sign of a revival.
Guyana’s President Donald Ramotar, who is in Chile for the Summit, shared a photo opportunity with the Chilean President who in 2010 gained worldwide praise and recognition for overlooking the successful rescue mission of 33 miners who were trapped for more than two months underground in northern Chile.
The Summit is scheduled to conclude on January 28 with Cuba assuming the pro-tempore Chair of the First CELAC Summit. It is a highly anticipated moment for the Summit and the island that has endured years of sanctions from Western powers.
CELAC was established in December 2011 by the 33 independent countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.
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