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Havana, December  14 (RHC) The 20th ALBA-TCP Summit, the meeting of heads of state and government of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) and the Peoples' Trade Agreement (TCP), begins today in the Cuban capital.

The bloc is 17 years old despite campaigns to delegitimize it and even coups d'état or attempts to break it up.

On the agenda, of the Summit to take place at the Palace of the Revolution in Havana, among other issues, is the analysis of the confrontation with the Covid-19 pandemic, the interference of the United States, and the action program of the Alliance for the coming year.

It aims to defend the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean postulates as a Zone of Peace, approved in this city at the II Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).

These are common goals and principles shared by the governments and peoples of Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Dominica, St. Vincent, and the Grenadines. Also, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia and Grenada.

As a more recent precedent, the XIX Summit of the bloc was held in Venezuela in June, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Carabobo.

ALBA-TCP reaffirmed in this period the rejection of the blockade against Cuba and the aggressions against Venezuela and Nicaragua and the destabilizing attempts against the Bolivian government.

The Alliance underscored the defense of solidarity and cooperation mechanisms instead of the selfish policies advocated by the current unjust international economic order. In this regard, it endorsed integration with the Caribbean.