Experts from the nine member nations of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) are meeting on Friday in Havana to prepare the agenda of the ALBA Summit of Heads of State scheduled for December 13 and 14.

Specialists from the host country Cuba, along with those from Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Honduras, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Nicaragua, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines are meeting at Havana’s Palco Hotel.

The experts are analyzing agreements and proposals from previous ALBA summits to determine the issues to be discussed by the presidents and heads of delegations in the upcoming event.

Havana was selected as the venue for this ALBA Summit at the proposal of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during the Cochabamba Summit, Bolivia, held last October.

ALBA, an initiative by President Hugo Chavez and the leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro, was officially founded in the Cuban capital on December 14, 2004. Soon after being constituted, the group was joined by two South American nations: Bolivia and Ecuador.

The same number of Central American countries later became members of the mechanism: Nicaragua and Honduras, followed by three other countries from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM); Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Dominica.

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