PFRESIDENT Donald Ramotar was among Heads of State and Government of the countries that are members of the mechanisms of ALBA (the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of our America) and PETROCARIBE, who met yesterday in Caracas, Venezuela in a Second combined Summit of ALBA-PETROCARIBE.

The Summit is being held under the chairmanship of His Excellency Nicolas Maduro Moros, President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
According to a brief statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the aim of the Summit is to strengthen the institutional mechanisms governing the integration process of Latin America and the Caribbean. In this regard, the Heads were, last evening, slated to deliberate on the proposal for the establishment of a complementary economic zone among the countries of ALBA, PETROCARIBE, CARICOM and MERCOSUR.

His Excellency President Ramotar, is attending this Summit and is accompanied by the Honourable Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Guyana’s Minister of Foreign

Affairs and Mr Geoffrey DaSilva, Ambassador of Guyana to Venezuela.