<span style="color: #222222;">Peru and Colombia have proposed an emergency Amazon summit for countries in the region on September 6th in Colombia to protect the vast rainforest yesterday. <br />''</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In a statement issued on the margins of a bilateral summit in Pucallpa, Peru, the Peru President Martin Vizcarra and his Colombian counterpart Ivan Duque have called for the urgent meeting to "join forces" in protecting the rainforest. <br />''</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Summit's aim is to establish a pact to conserve, develop and sustainably use the Amazon rainforest while also benefitting the communities that live there, mentioned the statement.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' No mention, however, was made of which other countries would be invited. <br />''<br />''The statement also made no mention of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization based in Brasilia that comprises eight countries — including Bolivia, Ecuador, Guyana, Surinam and Venezuela — involved in development in the Amazon basin. </span><br />