Venezuela Urges Latam to Adopt 17 Development Goals

Venezuelan Vice President Jorge Arreaza headed up the 2nd Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) meeting on Social Development and the Eradication of Poverty. He urged the region to work together to meet the 17 sustainable development goals and emphasized Venezuela's success in this regard. In the past seven years extreme poverty in Venezuela has been reduced from 7% to 4.9% and the goal is to bring the figure down to 0%. teleSUR