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Article: VENEZUELA - 1st South American Energy Summit.
- Article from:
- APS Review Gas Market Trends
- Article date:
- November 19, 2007
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President Chavez hosted the first South American Energy Summit, which ended on April 17, 2007, with agreements to create a regional energy council and to re-baptise a fledgling effort at continental integration, with the Latin American gas pipeline proposed by Caracas to be a key part of this. But the event ended without a final declaration which is traditional at high-level conclaves. Hours after the departure of the first president, Argentina's Nestor Kirchner, diplomats were still haggling over the biofuels portion of the summit statement, though accord was reached on rebranding the South American Community of Nations as Unasur and endowing it with a permanent ...