Chancellor Gil: ALBA-TCP must design plans for the security and defense of the region's economy

Published at: 29/03/2025 04:15 PM

This Saturday, March 29, the Foreign Minister of the Republic, Yván Gil, stressed that the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - Peoples' Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP), has a great responsibility to guarantee that zone of peace and guarantee the sovereignty, “of our States and for this we must design concrete plans to do with security, of course with security and defense with the economy”.

The approach was made at the headquarters of the Yellow House, during his speech at the meeting of the XXV Political Council of ALBA-TCP, where it was stated that the aforementioned plan should not only be for 2025, “but in the next five to 10 years, that we will surely be facing various challenges”.

In addition, Gil highlighted the need to address “the various attacks that have been carried out from the United States, fundamentally, we recently saw the visit or walk that the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, took in the region and precisely trying to threaten.”

He specified that the topic of unilateral coercive measures, migrants, PETROCARIBE, CELAC, and others will also be analyzed.

He also stressed that the meeting is convened within the framework of the work program approved by the Presidents at the last summit held in Caracas.

He pointed out that currently “we are living in a time in the world where we are faced, as we have said, at an extremely important crossroads, the geopolitical point of view, with very great challenges for our region and for our organization, the ALBA-TCP.”

The event is led by the Executive Secretariat of ALBA-TCP, Jorge Arreaza, with the participation of the foreign ministers of Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Grenada, Dominican Republic, Saint Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda. All members of the Alliance.

Mazo News Team