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BOLIVIA
Evo: ALBA to Tackle Key Regional Issue
La
Paz - Bolivian
President Evo Morales highlighted on
Thursday that the 7th Summit of the
Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our
America (ALBA) will be an ideal space to
deeply analyze crucial regional affairs.
The head of State told Prensa Latina one of
the meeting's main issues will be The
Peoples' Trade Agreement (TCP),
complementary policy to competitiveness of
Free Trade Agreements.
Regarding that, Morales said that
cooperatives and small enterprises are
unable to compete with big transnationals,
that is why, he stressed, "we will defend
fair trade among States."
The Bolivian president favors the TCP as
response to the weakening neoliberal model,
the result of deregulation, privatization,
and indiscriminate opening to markets
encouraged by the US in South America.
Representatives from the nine ALBA member
countries will also debate issues linked to
social movements, Armed Forces, and
political parties in the region, the
president stressed.
"Bolivia will suggest the creation of a
regional defense school with our own
doctrine, for the training of special forces
in the area, not anywhere else," he
sustained.
The ALBA Summit, to open on October 16 in
the Bolivian department of Cochabamba, will
also study the possibility of a common
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