{"id":10508,"date":"2026-03-20T00:27:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T04:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/?p=10508"},"modified":"2026-03-20T00:27:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T04:27:48","slug":"brazilian-president-to-promote-integration-at-celac-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/brazilian-president-to-promote-integration-at-celac-summit-20032026\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian President to Promote Integration at CELAC Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The upcoming Bogota meeting offers a space for coordinating among LATAM countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Sunday, Brazilian President Lula da Silva will promote regional integration at the annual summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), to be held in Bogota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>RELATED:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/mexico-and-brazil-bilateral-cooperation\/\">Sheinbaum, Lula discuss bilateral cooperation and Brazil visit<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lula\u2019s participation in the CELAC summit constitutes a \u201cconstitutional commitment,\u201d fundamental \u201cin today\u2019s world, where unilateralism, coercive measures, and unilateral acts are proliferating,\u201d stated Gisela Padovan, Secretary for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Brazilian Foreign Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alongside the summit, the CELAC-African Union dialogue will be inaugurated, a forum that will bring together representatives from both regional blocs. This meeting will focus on three main areas: South-South cooperation, historical reparations and ethnic-racial justice, and trade and investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CELAC summit in Colombia represents a key space for strengthening regional dialogue and policy coordination among the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, in an international context marked by geopolitical tensions and multilateral challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>CELAC-African Union<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Forum represents a concrete step toward institutionalizing understanding among the parties and defining sustained mechanisms for political, economic, academic, and cultural cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Participants will address an agenda aimed at establishing guidelines for advancing a shared roadmap on South-South cooperation, sustainable development, recognition and historical justice for ethnic communities, trade and investment, foreign policy, and institutional strengthening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event also seeks to consolidate a strategic space for bi-regional political dialogue that projects CELAC as a collective actor of the Global South, committed to historical justice, racial equality, and multilateral engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the final day of the Forum, delegates are expected to adopt a joint declaration formalizing priority areas for cooperation, establishing monitoring mechanisms, summarizing the results of activities undertaken, and expressing their commitment to moving toward the creation and formalization of a Joint Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another key objective of the Forum is to promote trade, investment, and economic facilitation by identifying concrete opportunities for exchange, production linkages, reciprocal investments, and technical negotiations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of this is consistent with the African Continental Free Trade Area and Latin American and Caribbean integration schemes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upcoming Bogota meeting offers a space for coordinating among LATAM countries. 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