ALC-UE Summit to Tackle Food Crisis

from Inside Costa Rica

World crisis on rising in food prices that, like all calamities, hardest hits poor people, came into the agenda of coming Euro-Latin American Summit Eurolat during recent hours.

The addition of that topic to the agenda of the fifth Summit of Latin America and the Caribbean or European Union (ALC-UE) was announced by Foreign Minister Jose Gracia Belaunde on Friday, in the middle of much international concern on the rising food crisis.

The topic is to be tackled as main in the summit, despite not appearing in the official agenda, which only considers the fight against poverty, social inclusion, climatic change and energy problems, the Minister indicated.

It is a subject that has acquired particular seriousness in the last months, "Garcia Belaunde indicated in a visit to the Museum of the Nation, to headquarter the Summit to take place on Friday and Saturday.

Food crisis has emerged due to food shortage and the increase of food prices, worsened by the abandonment of food harvesting to dedicate earth to produce consumptions for bio-combustible.

Another point to tackle, not present in the agenda, but present in the Summit will be the conversations between Colombia and Ecuador, in search of solutions to the crisis between both countries, since the recent Colombian military attack to Ecuadorian territory.

Garcia Belaunde affirmed that Ecuador Foreign Minister Jose Valencia and Colombian Camilo Reyes will meet here within the framework of the Summit, as part of a process of approach supported by the Organization of American States.

In this event of Heads of Delegation, to happen Friday 16, 46 Heads of State will participate, on a total of 58 delegations.