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CÚPULA DA AMÉRICA LATINA E DO CARIBE SOBRE INTEGRAÇÃO E DESENVOLVIMENTO - CALC
Special Declarations
The Heads of State and Government of the Countries of Latin
America and the Caribbean, gathered in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, on
December 16th and 17th 2008, during the Summit of Latin America
and the Caribbean on Integration and Development, adopted the
following:
• Communiqué on “The Question of the Malvinas Islands”;
• Special declaration on the necessity of ending the economic,
commercial and financial blockade imposed by the Government of the United
States of America against Cuba, including the enforcement of the Helms-
Burton Act;
• Communiqué to support the request by the Centro-American
Integration System (SICA) to the European Commission to continue granting
to Panamá the SGP+ regime benefits;
• Communiqué to support Bolivia;
• CALC Initiative as Regards the World Financial Crisis.
Communique on “The Qustion of the Malvinas Islands”
“We, the Heads of State and Government of the countries of Latin America
and the Caribbean (CALC), meeting in Salvador, Federative Republic of
Brazil, on December 16th to 17th 2008:
CONSIDERING THAT within the Organization of American States it
has repeatedly been stated that the Question of the Malvinas Islands is a
matter of enduring hemispheric concern:
REAFFIRM the need for the Governments of the Argentine Republic
and of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to
resume, as soon as possible, negotiations on the sovereignty dispute over
the Malvinas, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands and the
surrounding maritime areas, in order to find a peaceful solution to this
protracted controversy, in the framework of the relevant resolutions of
the United Nations General Assembly and its Special Committee on
Decolonization, as well as of the reiterated resolutions and declarations
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