Rio Group accepts Cuba; Group demands role in global economic order

[Judi Lynn]

Rio Group accepts Cuba; Group demands role in global economic order
Venezuela a Founding Member of the 23 member group -- Argentina, Brazil & Mexico to go to Washington for World Economic Summit

By Raul Cortes

MEXICO CITY -- The Rio Group club of Latin American and Caribbean nations agreed to join forces in order to deal with the current economic crisis and to defend their rights in a possible new world financial order, on the same day it approved the inclusion of Cuba as the organization's 23rd member.

These decisions were taken Thursday during a meeting of Rio Group foreign ministers in the Mexican city of Zacatecas.

At a press conference after the meeting, Mexican Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinosa stressed the participants' interest in creating a common front to meet the difficult international economic situation.

Those present also argued in favor of "more and better supervision" of the financial system and that "in the process of definition there be active participation and the inclusion of all views," especially of Latin America and the Caribbean, she said.

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