While the Western media has been intensely focused on the G20 talks in Europe recently, Telesur has been covering another summit which has been virtually ignored by Western broadcasters. The 2nd Arab-South American Summit in Doha took place this week, with stories running on Telesur about the creation of a
binational Venezuelan-Iranian bank, defiance from Arab leaders in particular about the arrest warrant issued for Sudanese Presdient Bashir, and
Chavez’ typically flamboyant call for the arrest of former President Bush and Israeli President Shimon Peres on genocide charges.
The headlines from Doha this week read like a menu of Telesur’s anti-hegemonic themes:
anti-imperialist,
anti-capitalist, defiant about human rights charges, and
calling for greater solidarity and integration both between South American and Arab countries, and also regionally within Latin America and the Arab world. The summit was originally proposed by Brazlian Presdient Lula and the first one was held in 2005. The summit concluded with an 11-point declaration emphasizing “south-south cooperation” and weighing in about major political issues like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the crisis in Darfur.
The headlines from Doha this week read like a menu of Telesur’s anti-hegemonic themes: anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, defiant about human rights charges, and calling for greater solidarity and integration both between South American and Arab countries, and also regionally within Latin America and the Arab world. The summit was originally proposed by Brazlian Presdient Lula and the first one was held in 2005. The summit concluded with an 11-point declaration emphasizing “south-south cooperation” and weighing in about major political issues like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the crisis in Darfur.
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