Havana, Dec 14 (Prensa Latina) After approving a final declaration of 43 points read by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, the 13th Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our America-Trade Treaty of the Peoples (ALBA-TCP) was pronounced closed. The one-day meeting held at the Palace of the Revolution in Havana, attended by representatives of a dozen countries, marked the Tenth anniversary of the integration mechanism, founded by revolutionary leaders Fidel Castro (Cuba) and Hugo Chavez (Venezuela). Participants express in the document their commitment to the consolidation of the ALBA-TCP and also the will to fight for the second and definitive independence of Latin America and the Caribbean.

They also highlight that in the global context, characterized by the offensive of capital and the oligarchies pretending to destabilize and overthrow progressive democratically elected governments by its peoples, the ALBA-TCP constitutes an invincible bulwark in the struggle for sovereigny in the region.

The meeting welcomed as new members Grenada and St. Christopher and Nevis, increasing to 11 the number of countries belonging to the integration mechanism in which Haiti attends as permanent guest.

The rest of the plenary members are Cuba, Venezuela, Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Dominica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines forming the bloc at present.