ALBA-TCP reaffirms its support for the 9th CELAC Summit

Published at: 09/04/2025 12:01 PM

The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - Peoples' Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) firmly accompanies the 9th Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), reaffirming its commitment to peace, dialogue and the unity of the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean.

The official statement was shared by the Secretary General of ALBA-TCP, Jorge Arreaza, who highlighted the importance of this forum as a space to strengthen cooperation and solidarity in the region.

“Unity within diversity is the founding premise of this unitary forum for all of our America,” says part of the Communiqué.

The document underlines the need to overcome external threats and attempts at destabilization, defending the identity and dignity of the peoples of the region. In a global context of transition to a multipolar order, ALBA makes an urgent call to consolidate Latin American and Caribbean unity, based on principles of mutual respect, sovereignty and self-determination.

Below is the full statement from ALBA-TCP:

ALBA-TCP accompanies the 9th #Celac Summit and supports “the commitment to peace, dialogue and Latin American and Caribbean unity”

This 2025 finds us at a time of very particular definitions and strategic challenges, which call on the peoples of the continent to resume the path of unity as a real hope for the future and as a regional sovereign commitment, in the midst of a change in the balance of global powers.

The conjuncture of the developing global geopolitical system is crucial, convulsive and unpredictable. The birth of the new multipolar world has triggered the desperate reaction of the model of domination, which inevitably languishes, but which appeals to its entire economic, ideological and military arsenal to try to reposition itself.

The peace, stability and security of nations are threatened by aggressions, attempts at destabilization, lies, unilateral coercive measures, tariff pressures and unconventional, cognitive and communication wars.

During the 21st century, the Latin American and Caribbean region has been strongly threatened by the irrationality of the American hegemon, which today, more than ever, is expressed in the attempt to reconfigure the dynamic of imperialist control, which has already been overcome, to continue to corner the world in the logic of infinite war, the plunder of peoples and even the nuclear debacle.

Inspired by the unobjectionable morality that characterizes the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), for 20 years, its member countries take advantage of this special occasion, at which the 9th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) is held, to unequivocally raise their voices in defense of that founding premise of this unitary forum of all our America, the search for “unity within diversity”.

In this scenario, to overcome together the extortive pretensions and the inappropriate blackmail of the diminished and mortally wounded global North; condemn the criminalization of migrant populations; defend and enhance the identity of our peoples; as well as neutralize any attempt to impose conflicts manufactured by exogenous interests, must re-signify the motives and redirect the actions that ensure the paths of union and peace of the peoples and governments of Our America.

In this change of era, in which a global multipolar order emerges, unity is manifested as an imminent need and an inescapable principle, in the face of the decline of the hegemonic system and its obsolete geopolitical domination. The ALBA —constituted on the basis of the principles of cooperation, solidarity, complementarity, respect for national sovereignty and the self-determination of people—makes a diaphanous wake-up call to consolidate, in a peremptory and undelayable way, the unity of Latin America and the Caribbean, without incurring ideological biases or old power schemes, based on the inexorable commitment to preserve the sacred dignity of the free peoples of the region, from the Rio Grande to Patagonia.

Faced with this scenario, the member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance also reaffirm their complete and reinforced adherence to the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, now with revitalized validity and relevance, with the certainty that CELAC must be consolidated, with diplomatic height and collective leadership, not only as the mechanism par excellence of political consultation, to make the defense of peace, security and life of the peoples of the region prevail; but also as the vanguard of a process of union that requires resignification in the civilizational transition, as an alternative for the future.

“The greatness of a people

it is not measured by the extent of its territory,

but for the dignity and honor of their children”.

— Francisco Morazan

“To hesitate is to lose ourselves.”

— Simon Bolivar

Caracas, April 9, 2025