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China-CELAC a ‘Costa Rican achievement’ —
Correa Ecuador president Rafael Correa has said
that the Celac agreement with China, was probably the
greatest achievement of Costa Rica during its presidency,
adding that among the main achievements was reaching
concrete agreements with China in the bilateral forum
recently held there.In an interview with several local
television channels, the Ecuadorian president said that for
its size, China can be considered as a region, and deepening
the relationship would be beneficial for the Celac
countries.Beijing was the “principal financier of the
world” and to achieve agreements to finance projects aimed
at the development of Latin America and the Caribbean
Project was “a great success,” he said.Correa, now
pro tempore president of the regional bloc, said that at the
current stage of development of the region, what was needed
was financing.“We no longer need,” he said, “the
alms like those given by NGOs who come to construct little
schools, because we can do that.“What we need is
science, technology, technology transfer to help us create
our human talent, and China can give those to us,” he
added.