[NYTr] Guatemala: Pres-Elect Confirms Interest in PetroCaribe
 
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 16:45:27 -0600 (CST)

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Colom Reaffirms Guatemala's Interest in Petrocaribe

Managua, Dec 8 (Prensa Latina) Guatemalan President-elect Alvaro Colom
confirmed in this capital on Friday that he would meet soon with his
Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chavez, to discuss his country's adhesion
to the energy project Petrocaribe.

We are working on the possibility of conceiving Petroguatemala to be
able to join Petrocaribe, Colom told reporters at a news conference in
Nicaragua, where he met with President Daniel Ortega on Friday.

The president-elect, who will be sworn in on January 14, said he would
bring up the issue during his meeting with Chavez on December 10 in
Argentina, where they will attend the swearing-in ceremony of President
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

That would be the main issue that I will discuss with President Chavez,
said Colom, who left for Panama after paying a courtesy visit to Ortega
on Friday.

Asked about Guatemala's eventual adhesion to the Bolivarian Alternative
for the Americas (ALBA), the president-elect noted that possibility
would be analyzed in the national dialogue that will begin in his
country in January.

The ALBA is an integrationist initiative being boosted by Venezuela,
Cuba, Bolivia and Nicaragua, while Petrocaribe is an energy cooperation
project promoted by Caracas to benefit the Caribbean countries.

The signatories of Petrocaribe are Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas,
Belize, Cuba, Dominique, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Nicaragua, the
Dominican Republic, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent
and the Grenadines, Surinam and Venezuela.

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