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Speaking to EFE, the deputy minister for Latin America and elCaribe noted that since this morning several comisionesencargadas are gathered to review progress in various areas which include, inter alia, education, health and economy.

“We will have many good news to give on losresultados” of cooperation in these fields, he stressed AriasCardenas at the hotel where the meetings took place today deexpertos and officials of the nine partner countries.

The vice foreign minister said the findings of these reunionesprevias be presented Saturday to the Council of Foreign Ministers dela Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA), before the presidents lasdebatan Sunday.

The block, created in 2004, comprises Cuba, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Venezuela, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominicay Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,

addition to the results in various yeconomicas social areas, the deputy minister described as “remarkable,” focus on coopera quoted in “consolidating the new ideas about participacionconjunta in international forums,” as the conclusion enCopenhague now on climate change.

With regard to priority issues, Arias Cardenas cited, in addition to the problems of climate change issues politicoscomo “foreign military bases on the continent” and situa-tion in Honduras.

On the agreement of Bogota and Washington to use inColombia bases by U.S. military, said that not only “affect Venezuela, but the entire continent.”

This American presence ” affects stability “in South Americadel said the deputy minister, whose country has entered a nuevacrisis with neighboring Colombia in the wake of the military agreement that llevoal President Hugo Chavez to” freeze “the bilateral relationship.

Arias Cardenas also cited the case of Honduras and denounced “attack mode lanueva democratic governments and artificial construirprocesos elections for the permanence of losviejos schemes and to check changes,” referring to losrecientes elections whose outcome could not recognize Venezuela.

Asked about the possible presence of deposed presidentehondureno, Manuel Zelaya, the summit, the Deputy Minister said: “We were hopeful … What happened to the de facto government torpedel attitude is that it has prevented (Zelaya) Mexicoy out to, well, things are complicated. “

” Let”s see what happens in the coming hours, “said AriasCardenas, adding that the chancellor Zelaya PatriciaRodas, “surely will be” at the meeting in Havana.

Deputy Minister gave no indication when she will lacapital Cuban President Chavez, who yesterday confirmed this queviajaria Friday at Havana, but lasdelegaciones sources present in the Convention Palace, where the summit shall be disposed, said he will on Saturday.

is expected to hold a bilateral meeting Chavez with suhomologo Cuba, Raul Castro, before participating in the new regional bloc cumbredel convened to mark the fifth anniversary dela creation of the alliance. EFE