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The Extraordinary Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas-Commerce Treaty of the Peoples (ALBA-TCP) is in session in Havana on October 20, 2014 to agree joint security measures for the prevention of the Ebola virus spreading.
This meeting is being held in Havana as a request of the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The Venezuelan president declared to the press that solidarity, humanism and the support of all the peoples of the world are the characteristics that will prevail in this meeting, and Cuba is an example of this.
Health authorities together with the heads of States, of governments and the foreign ministers of the country-members will attend this important meeting. Lots of delegations have arrived to Cuba since Sunday, October 19, for protection protocols to join opinions that will help fight the mortal epidemic disease, as Maduro stressed.
“Cuba was the first country in Latin America and the Caribbean that sent medical staff and of assistance to the African nations affected by Ebola.” The Cuban health system is going on thanks to the advances, its discipline and solidarity gesture, and it has been an example of health for all the peoples, reasons why to hold a meeting like this at the Conventional Palace in Havana, Cuba.
The Bolivarian President, Maduro also expressed it will be worth to take these experiences beyond the Latin American and Caribbean frontiers , and as it was said in the last articles published by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro that the United States should join to our countries so that together we could create “a moment to meet for humanity.”
The capacity of the ALBA-TCP country-members to meet in urgent situations is an element to highlight, Maduro noted. “We also meet to see what else we can do for Africa, the poorest region of the world that suffers today the consequences of centuries of sacking and exploitation.”
