Lula Appeases CAN Crisis
La Paz
The mediation of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the Andean Community of Nations´ (CAN) crisis has awakened Bolivia´s expectations that the project could be saved.
The Brazilian arbitration, confirmed in that country by presidential advisor Marco Aurelio Garcia, has been held with discretion, with talks between Presidents Alvaro Uribe, Colombia, and Hugo Chavez, Venezuela.
Bolivian President Evo Morales supported and encouraged Lula´s intervention, hoping it helps to save and strengthen the Andean bloc formed by Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela in 1969.
On Monday, Morales asked the presidents of Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela to rise above their unyielding attitudes to save CAN. However, he only had positive reply from Venezuela.
Morales said Bolivia will do as much as possible to help CAN recover the basic principles of its foundation, aimed at strengthening the economies of member countries as well as mutual trade.
"Those who make unilateral negotiations with the US, allowing the reinforcement of transnationals without protecting Andean economies, are wrongly weakening CAN," he stressed.
For Chavez, the commercial deals some of its members have inked or are negotiating with Washington weaken unity by associating with the failed US-boosted Free Trade Area of the Americas.
The mediation of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the Andean Community of Nations´ (CAN) crisis has awakened Bolivia´s expectations that the project could be saved.
The Brazilian arbitration, confirmed in that country by presidential advisor Marco Aurelio Garcia, has been held with discretion, with talks between Presidents Alvaro Uribe, Colombia, and Hugo Chavez, Venezuela.
Bolivian President Evo Morales supported and encouraged Lula´s intervention, hoping it helps to save and strengthen the Andean bloc formed by Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela in 1969.
On Monday, Morales asked the presidents of Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela to rise above their unyielding attitudes to save CAN. However, he only had positive reply from Venezuela.
Morales said Bolivia will do as much as possible to help CAN recover the basic principles of its foundation, aimed at strengthening the economies of member countries as well as mutual trade.
"Those who make unilateral negotiations with the US, allowing the reinforcement of transnationals without protecting Andean economies, are wrongly weakening CAN," he stressed.
For Chavez, the commercial deals some of its members have inked or are negotiating with Washington weaken unity by associating with the failed US-boosted Free Trade Area of the Americas.
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Thursday, April 27, 2006
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