Speech by Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, minister of foreign affairs, at the meeting of foreign ministers at the 6th European Union- Latin America and Caribbean Summit, Madrid, May 17, 2010.
I would like to thank Spain and Foreign Minister Moratinos for the conditions they have created for this Summit.
I remember the first European Union- Latin America and Caribbean Summit in 1999 in Río de Janeiro. Acknowledged European leaders proposed the idea of establishing a bi-regional strategic association and there were some optimists among our countries. Curiously, Europe was coming direct from the NATO Summit in which, in the face of so-called global threats, a new doctrine was adopted that treated Latin America and the Caribbean like “the Euro-Atlantic periphery.”
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