Ecuador Foreign Minister, Ricardo Patino, celebrated today the unity process developed by the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and assured that its Fourth Summit will materialize another step towards the commonwealth.
 
The meeting of Heads of State and Government of the regional bloc, to be held tomorrow in this capital, has this Tuesday in the IX Meeting of foreign ministers of CELAC a necessary prologue, estimated the Ecuadorian Foreign Minister during the inauguration.
 
At the headquarters of the Union of South American Nations, the foreign ministers will define the agenda of the Fourth Summit, the documents will be submitted to the consideration of the leaders, the political declaration of Quito, the action plan for 2016 and some important special statements.
 
For Patino, this Summit opens other steps full of hope that certainly will lead Celac peoples towards integration.
 
The host Foreign minister stressed the possibility that Latin American and Caribbean demonstrate our ability to find, by our own means and without tutelage, the best solutions to the problems that affect us.
 
Also, he remembered that tomorrow will conclude the president pro tempore of Ecuador in the CELAC and commented that in 2015 focused their efforts on building a regional agenda that get together a group of potential actions, with clear horizons for the people feel the benefits of unity.
 
The main element of this proposal, he stressed, is the eradication of extreme poverty, challenge of substantive importance for the global society as it represent a moral imperative, a claim of global consciousness we must achieve in our region.
 
Patiño urged to continue to strengthen the common position in the fight against climate change and to take steps with the view to create a regional financial architecture so as to make the Latin American and Caribbean countries savings remain in the region and finance their own development projects.