The president of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Gene León, and the representative of the Venezuelan government, Raúl Li Causi, held a meeting in order to analyze cooperation strategies in the region, promote connectivity and maritime transport as development axes of the Latin American and Caribbean peoples.

The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry issued a statement informing about the meeting, with which it was intended to achieve a rapprochement with the countries “borrowing and non-borrowing members of the financial institution.”

According to the information provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Li Causi was emphatic in pointing out that Venezuela has been taking steps to reactivate cooperation between Latin American and Caribbean countries with “economic integration programs to combat poverty and social exclusion.”

Li Causi also explained the country’s perspective on the Bank of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA in Spanish) and the actions it has been executing to jointly face the pandemic caused by Covid-19 in the region.

For his part, the representative of the CDB, Gene León, stressed that the meeting sought to seek alternatives to work together with the Latin American countries for programs that would promote the development of Latin American societies.

León also highlighted the importance of working and promoting the “security, dignity and prosperity of the peoples.”

M. Rodríguez

Source: elnacional.com

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