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Castro, even absent, the most important presence in the summit of Mercosur
Chávez and Kirchner encourage the president Evo Morales to transform Bolivia into the sixth partner.
The signature of commercial agreements with Cuba breaks the blockade of UNITED STATES
Córdoba, July 18. While the indications of the arrival of the president from Cuba grow, Fidel Castro, to participate in the Summit of the Market Common of the South (Mercosur), they exist strong hopes that Bolivia considers its effective entrance as partner in this integration block, what would mean a qualitative new jump, after the recent entrance of Venezuela that is key for the consolidation of this process and the new objectives outlined in the political, social and cultural.
Chávez and Kirchner encourage the president Evo Morales to transform Bolivia into the sixth partner.
The signature of commercial agreements with Cuba breaks the blockade of UNITED STATES
Córdoba, July 18. While the indications of the arrival of the president from Cuba grow, Fidel Castro, to participate in the Summit of the Market Common of the South (Mercosur), they exist strong hopes that Bolivia considers its effective entrance as partner in this integration block, what would mean a qualitative new jump, after the recent entrance of Venezuela that is key for the consolidation of this process and the new objectives outlined in the political, social and cultural.
This summit goes farther, when signing and to protocolize all the commercial agreements and of another type with Cuba, in an open rupture of the blockade of United States and for this reason it was invited - as simbología of those changes - to the president even absent Castro, converted, in the most important presence judging by the desperate career of the means to give the primicia of its arrival.
With Cuba he/she also gets ready the signature of an agreement of commercial opening, what is read as a political strong backing. In the case of Bolivia, the presidents Hugo Chávez and Néstor Kirchner manifested Evo Morales that its country could transform into the partner number six, during the recent meeting of Caracas, Venezuela, in the moment in that he/she decided it.
The thirtieth meeting of the Council of the Common Market and bosses' of State of Mercosur summit and associate countries that it began here yesterday, with the teams that you/they worked to trace the general limits of the new calendar and the basic agreements for the chancelleries in the documents on those that the presidents will work.
The presidents will decide on a temario that embraces the outline and the form in which the new partner will participate of the meetings of the block. In the same way there it will be specified which it will be "the grade of commercial opening that Hugo Chávez" government will implement, although it is already defined that Venezuela will be integrated definitively to the block between 2010 and 2012, while he/she is solved the line of products that you/they will be negotiated before that date and they are defined the calls sensitive" "products that would be liberated after 2014.
"Linked to energy, the objective of the block of five members is to transform to the region into an area autoabastecida of gas, petroleum and derived with the possibility of signing an agreement in the medium term, but beginning the negotiations in Córdoba, of an area of energy (that it would include Bolivia) free trade, where the partners of Mercosur have priority in price and in quantity for the provision of fuels", it summarizes a local analysis.