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The 32 participating countries also supported the legitimate rights Argentines on the Falkland Islands and created a group of friends from Colombia and Venezuela, whose two leaders had a verbal clash during the meeting.

The new group will foster regional integration a priority with a view to promoting our sustainable development, promote regional agenda in global forums, “said the president of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, to read some of the final declaration.

Introduction of the new block “is of historical significance. Cuba considers that the conditions exist for rapid progress towards the establishment of a regional organization purely American and Caribbean region,” said President Raul Castro.

statutes, internal organization and sustenance of the new mechanism will be discussed until mid-2011, when concerning the next meeting of the new regional facility in Caracas.

According to Calderon this organization shall be comprised of the 33 countries of the region, including Honduras, which was not invited to Cancun, and could be called Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.

“The region requires a stronger political consensus instance that strengthens its international position and will result in swift and effective action to promote Latin American and Caribbean interests, “states another paragraph of the Declaration of Cancun.

The Cancun meeting also expressed its solidarity with Haiti, whose president Rene Preval before the leaders made a dramatic retelling of the tragedy that has befallen their country by the earthquake in January which found that might have left some 300,000 dead.

Another of the declarations of the summit reiterated the strong rejection of the U.S. embargo on Cuba and maintains a document is expressed on most regional coorperacion on migration.

The most notable absentee was the Honduran president Porfirio Lobo, who was not invited because Honduras was suspended from the Organization of American States (OAS) following the coup of 2009.

But The episode highlights of the meeting was the incident of words between the presidents of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez and Colombia, Alvaro Uribe.

The discussion, according to a Colombian official who requested anonymity, had place during lunch on Monday closed after Chavez criticized Uribe have imposed a trade embargo on his country.

“Be a man, stay here because sometimes insulted in the distance and when We are not talking face to face, “said Uribe when Chavez threatened to leave the meeting, according to this official.

But the version submitted in Caracas says it was Uribe who” went berserk “when Chavez made reference to the paramilitary issue. “I”m not a thug, I”m not a paramilitary!” Would have said “angry” Uribe, Venezuelan diplomatic sources said.

Some presidents, especially the Cuban Raul Castro, spoke for calm things down.

Shortly thereafter, Uribe told reporters his government of Venezuela and pledged to “cease the public interventions that harm” and create a group of friends ” to help overcome these differences. “

Chavez, meanwhile, said Venezuela wants to” return to calm and normal relations, commercial, and social policies between two republics which are inhabited by the same people. “

Leading the group of friends of Venezuela and Colombia will be the Dominicandb4president Leonel Fernandez, who admitted that the repeated clashes between the two leaders expressed” a latent dispute that requires an intervention on our part. “

As for the statement on the Malvinas, adds that the” regional interest that the Governments of the Republic of Argentina and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland North to resume negotiations “over the dispute of sovereignty.

Brazilian President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, was beyond the region”s name and suggested that the UN” reopen the debate “on Falklands , fanned on Monday after Britain”s Desire Petroleum begin searching for oil off the islands.