(30 May 2023)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Brasilia, Brazil - 30 May 2023
1. Pan of the regional leaders meeting
2. Chile’s President Gabriel Boric listening to Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speech
3. Presidents listening to Lula
4. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s President:
“What brings us together today in Brasilia is the sense of urgency to collectively look back at our region. It is the determination to redefine a common vision and relaunch concrete actions for sustainable development, peace, and the well-being of our populations.”
5. Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez (left) listening to Lula speech
6. Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro
7. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s President:
“The (Brazil’s) 1988 Constitution stipulates in its paragraph 4: 'The Federative Republic of Brazil will seek the economic, political, social and cultural integration of the peoples of Latin America, aiming at the formation of a Latin American community of nations."
8. Press at Itamaraty Palace venue waiting presidents to arrive for the meeting
9. Various of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro arriving for the meeting
10. Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso arriving
11. Chile’s President Gabriel Boric arriving
12. Uruguay’s President Luiz Alberto Lacalle Pou
13. Various of Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez
STORYLINE:
South America’s leaders gathered Tuesday in Brazil’s capital as part of an effort by the Brazilian president to revive regional cooperation in energy, crime-fighting and the economy.
The regional bloc previously known as Union of South American Nations, or Unasur, first gathered 15 years ago to boost cooperation between the 12 South American nations.
But the group eventually fractured amid the continent’s political swings and polarization, and this is their first meeting in nine years.
“What brings us together today in Brasilia is the sense of urgency to collectively look back at our region. It is the determination to redefine a common vision and relaunch concrete actions for sustainable development, peace and the well-being of our populations,” said Lula at the beginning of the meeting.
On Monday, Lula suggested at a news conference that he might consider floating the idea of a regional currency to challenge the U.S. dollar.
But he said nothing would be decided during the meeting.
11 South American presidents are attending the summit, as well as the leader of the Council of Ministers of Peru, where the president, Dina Boluarte, faces charges and cannot leave the country.
AP Video by Eduardo Francois.
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