MERCOSUR for
More Integration
Asuncion - The 37th Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR)
Summit of heads of State and government that
is starting on Friday will be decisive for
an effective regional integration,
Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo asserted.
The subjects of the meeting aim at
consolidating relations among the bloc
member countries (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay
and Paraguay) and associated States, as
Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela,
currently in the joining process.
The presidents and representatives of those
nations will debate about issues related to
elimination of double collection of the
common foreign tariff and the mechanism to
distribute the customs duties.
They have also planned to analyze the bill
of regulations for trade transactions in
local currencies, the proposals related to
declaring the Guarani language as the
MERCOSUR official language and creating the
Permanent Secretariat of the Elederly.
Lugo highlighted that health situation in
the region, marked by specific facts that
deserve maximum attention, will be also
included in the agenda.
In that reference, two joint statements will
be issued by the bloc's health And Social
Development ministers, as guidelines for the
united regional struggle against the A(H1N1)
influenza epidemic.
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