Thursday, August 9, 2012

CELAC

Q.What is CELAC?
A. CELAC is the community formed by the states of Latin America and Caribbean region. It is "Community Of Latin American and Caribbean States". It is formed on February 23, 2010 at Rio summit. It consists of 33 nations speaking five different languages. It is a successor of Rio group + Latin America and Caribbean Summit on Integration and Development(CALC).

Q.Why it was formed?
A. The Community is formed to reduce the influence of United States and Canada in their political and economic affairs as the States thought that regions which are prone to the political influence of US and their constraints will have no economic development and thus they wanted to avoid the external interruptions of US. This community is formed to countermeasure the Organization of American States(OAS) by Washington in 1948.

Q.Who are its members?
A. The community is a representation of 33 nations of combined Latin America and Caribbean regions speaking five different languages. The Co-Chairs of the CELAC are Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela and Sebastian Pinera, President of Chile.

Q.Where was the first summit held?
A. First summit was held on December2, 2010 in Caracas, Venezuela. It focused on the primary issue, Global Economic Crisis and its impact on the region.
    The next two summits are scheduled to be held in Chile in 2012 and Cuba in 2013.

Q. What is the relation between the India and the CELAC?
A. Recently, both India and CELAC  had their meeting in New Delhi on August 7 and discussed various measures the countries had to develop to strengthen their relationship. The External Affairs minister S.M.Krishna headed the meet and other side is headed by Afredo Moreno Charme, minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile. The issues they concentrated are the trade and investment, Energy, Agriculture, minerals, science and technology, and international issues UN reforms, global financial crisis and terrorism. 

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