Venezuelan President Maduro opens Alba summit in Caracas

The 23rd summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) opened here Wednesday with its agenda focusing on a roadmap for 2030.

Maduro said member countries have made progress in debating the goals and voicing confidence that a draft of the agenda will be approved as a roadmap. According to Maduro, the top objective is the creation of an ALBA-TCP cooperation and development agency to attract the resources to promote development projects.

And the second line of action aims to relaunch Petrocaribe, a regional oil procurement agreement between Venezuela and Caribbean member states.