The Heads of State and Government of the member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) are pleased to announce the appointment of Venezuelan diplomat Jorge Arreaza, former Vice President and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela, as the
new ALBA-TCP Executive Secretary, who has been entrusted with the task of developing an urgent and challenging work plan, the ALBA-TCP 2030 Strategic Agenda, aimed at giving an extraordinary drive to the process of comprehensive consolidation of the Alliance in the coming years.

The new Executive Secretary has been entrusted to coordinate actions to reactivate the region’s cooperation structure by promoting trade exchange and the development of the logistics chain; expanding air and maritime connectivity; fostering the expansion of social inclusion programs; increasing the membership, capital assets and credit capacity of the Bank of Alba; reactivating Petrocaribe and
promoting its convergence with other regional cooperation mechanisms for development, among others.

The Heads of State and Government of ALBA-TCP express their gratitude to Ambassador Félix Plasencia for his excellent work as head of the Executive Secretariat over the past year.