Brazil's Lula Wishes to Integrate Latin America and the Caribbean

[Judi Lynn]

Brazil's Lula Wishes to Integrate Latin America and the Caribbean
Written by Newsroom
Saturday, 26 July 2008

The President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, extended an invitation to Latinamerican and Caribbean leaders to discuss regional integration and development in a meeting scheduled for December 16 and 17 in the northeastern Brazilian city of Salvador, in the state of Bahia.

The announcement was made during a banquet to honor Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister, Patrick Manning.

"We believe integration must extend to include Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean," said Lula. "South America's integration is a strong tool for Latinamerican and Caribbean integration, to help us overcome the burdensome legacy of inequalities."

The Brazilian president has made regional integration one of the pillars of his administration's foreign policy, "I'd do everything possible," to achieve the union of South American countries has become a constant phrase in his speeches.

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http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/9637/