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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/south-american-leaders-must-unite.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Ecuador's president Rafael Correa delivers a speech during the Unasur summit (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-south-american-leaders-must-unite.jpg" alt="Ecuador's president Rafael Correa delivers a speech during the Unasur summit (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Members of a fledgling South American defence union should stop seeking solutions from the US and turn to their own leaders for answers, Ecuador&#8217;s president said.</p>
<p>Rafael Correa spoke at the opening of a one-day summit in Guyana of the Union of South American Nations, or Unasur, which drew leaders including Venezuela&#8217;s Hugo Chavez, Argentina&#8217;s Cristina Fernandez and Brazil&#8217;s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.</p>
<p>Mr Correa said the region had looked to Washington for help for decades. &#8220;We need to rescue our own thoughts at this time,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We have to think for ourselves.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Silva called Unasur a global player whose members had co-operated with each other and survived an economic crisis still affecting some Western nations.</p>
<p>He said Brazil, which is soon expected to be the world&#8217;s fifth-largest economy, no longer had to listen to &#8220;some third-rate&#8221; official telling the country what to do.</p>
<p>Unasur had strengthened its involvement in defence and health issues, but it needed to create an arbitration council to resolve differences between countries, Mr Correa said.</p>
<p>Mr Correa also asked that Unasur create a commission to investigate the events that led to a September 30 police revolt in Ecuador in which about a dozen people died and 270 were wounded. The uprising was led by police upset over a new law that would deny them promotion bonuses.</p>
<p>During the summit, leaders also approved a democratic charter that will serve as a guide for the 12-nation bloc if any of them faced an attempted coup. Mr Correa said the charter would have been an effective tool during Ecuador&#8217;s revolt, adding: &#8220;If they (the rebels) had succeeded, they would have been ostracised immediately.&#8221;</p>
<p>The charter called for economic sanctions and expulsion from Unasur if a nation broke its rules, said Ricardo Patino, Ecuador&#8217;s foreign minister.</p>
<p>The Organisation of American States passed a similar democratic charter in 2001, but Mr Correa said Unasur&#8217;s version differed by imposing sanctions.</p>
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