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10/17/05

Dominican Today: Calls for European Union-Latin America strategic link

Dominican Today

Calls for European Union-Latin America strategic link

SALAMANCA, Spain. – The 15th Latin American Summit closed yesterday, Saturday stressing the "new impulse" given to the organization and the importance of providing the people with well-being and placing their problems in the center of the political action. In addition, in the Summit of Salamanca was accepted the Dominican president Leonel Fernandez’s proposal to promote the exchange of the foreign debt for social spending. In addition to the Latin American heads of State, the Spanish monarchs king Juan Carlos de Borbon, queen Sofia and prince Felipe attended the closing ceremony. For his part, Spain’s prime minister Jose Rodriguez Zapatero said that the Salamanca Summit is the beginning of "a new voyage" for the Ibero-American community, and asked that efforts be widened to forge a strategic association between the European Union and Latin America.

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