The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, described as “positive» the text of the resolution that the Brazilian delegation presented as an alternative to a resolution condemning the Nicaraguan dictatorship led by Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
In a press conference together with his deputy secretary general, Néstor Méndez, Almagro answered a journalist’s question on the subject of the violation of human rights in Nicaragua, the attacks on the Catholic Church and the draft resolution condemning that Brazil has proposed to modify.
“We have the deepest respect for Brazil’s position on all issues on the multilateral agenda and the agenda of the Organization of American States and we believe that Brazil’s position is always positive and contributes within the system,” Almagro said.
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“The resolution on the table is one more effort by the organization to condemn the lack of democracy in Nicaragua, as well as the systematic violations of human rights by the regime,” added Almagro. “And in that sense, all the countries are contributing and doing their best to ensure that this resolution is positive and to serve the results that the people need, and in that sense, we believe that all the countries are doing their best to achieve those results.” », closed the Secretary General of the OAS.
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The delegations of five States drafted a declaration proposal that they seek to agree among all the countries so that the foreign ministers approve it this week.
However, the Brazilian government, under the leadership of the leftist Lula Da Silva, sent an alternative text that eliminates some criticism and direct accusations of the Ortega dictatorship and adds conditions to some of the serious events taking place in the Central American country.
The draft declaration presented by Chile, Canada, the United States, Costa Rica and Antigua and Barbuda speaks of “deep alarm” over the “repression, the closure of civic space, human rights violations, including the denial of civil rights and basic politicians of Nicaraguan citizenship, as well as the violation of the right to property and social security, through the confiscation of goods and assets and the denial of pensions for those persons deprived of nationality».
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Brazil conditions the use of direct terms and replaces them with conditions, under the argument “that if you really want to produce changes in Nicaragua, you need to tone down the confrontation and make it possible to build bridges of dialogue.”
The Organization of American States, OAS, celebrates this week the fifty-third regular session of its General Assembly at its headquarters in Washington.
Twenty-seven delegations from its member countries have confirmed their attendance at the meeting. The Nicaraguan regime resigned from being part of the OAS in 2021, took its headquarters in Managua by force in April of last year and expelled its staff, however, its departure from the multilateral organization would only be official until November of this year. , when two years have elapsed since the denunciation of the OAS Charter, as established in its statutes.
Regime with multilateral condemnation
Representatives of the Nicaraguan opposition in exile, political prisoners, women’s and human rights organizations have confirmed their attendance and will take advantage of the parallel forums to denounce the constant repression, human rights violations and the absence of democracy in Nicaragua.
The Daniel Ortega regime has been subject to condemnations and sanctions since 2018, when it began a day of repression against social protests that have left more than 355 deaths to date, more than 2,000 injured, thousands detained and tortured, and hundreds of thousands of exiles. , confiscations and the systematic violation of human rights in general in Nicaragua.
By: United Voices
