Chile rules out joining the leftist boycott of the Summit of the Americas in the US

Chile rules out joining the leftist boycott of the Summit of the Americas in the US

Urrejola said that on his trip to Costa Rica for the transfer of command a few days ago, he took advantage of speaking with representatives of different governments, “giving a bit of our opinion on why the region needs to talk beyond differences.”

The official believes that the summit loses strength if certain countries are marginalized. In fact, the presidents of MexicoAndrés Manuel López Obrador, and boliviaLuis Arce, have already announced that they will not attend the summit if the countries mentioned are marginalized, a measure that Chile will not take.

“Us we are making efforts to make it as wide as possible, but we are working on the president’s agenda, both in the scope of the summit as well as in the bilateral agenda. We have not made participation subject to this issue,” the minister assured.

The United States maintains that Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba do not respect democracy or human rights, and Urrejola considers that “the last few years show that exclusion has not produced results in terms of human rights in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba. So the recipe has to be changed.

Lastly, Urrejola was asked about Boric’s low approval rating: “The truth is, and I don’t want to exaggerate, what he generates abroad shocks me. My diary accounts for that. I have a super busy agenda with foreign ministers and not only from the region. There is a common factor that is the interest in this new younger leadership, perhaps more informal, who says what he thinks,” he replied.

“There is still a lot of expectation of how, based on that leadership, international relations can change. And that is why he pointed to the issue of dialogue without exclusions, I think it is because he, being critical of various human rights situations in the region, is at the same time open to dialogue. That recipe didn’t apply for a long time,” he concluded.

Despite the considerations of the host country, the government of Joe Biden He announced that he has not sent out all the invitations yet, as a decision has not yet been made on the matter.

The Summit of the Americas is the main diplomatic forum of the American continent, and will be held between June 6 and 10, for the first time in the United States, specifically in Los Angeles.

Source: Ambito

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