November
17, 2004
Venezuela's
Chávez creates international humanitarian
brigade
(BBC Monitoring Americas) - "According
to Official Gazette No 38,065, decree
number 3,229 issued the President of the
Republic, Hugo Chávez Frías
has created the International Humanitarian
Civil-Military Brigade Simón Bolívar.
The foreign assistance organization will
attend emergency situations as a result
of natural disasters in the Caribbean
and Central America as well as any other
country that requests aid through diplomatic
channels (…)
The president took the decision in light
of the approval of a natural disaster
Regional Cooperation Agreement between
member and associated states in the Association
of Caribbean States. Likewise he has considered
the principals that govern Venezuela's
Latin American and Caribbean policy: cooperation
and integration and the well-being and
collective security of its inhabitants".
