The government of Colombia activated its protocols to facilitate the departure of 68 of its citizens who They are in Ukraine after the invasion of Russian troops in that country by order of President Vladimir Putin.
(President Iván Duque rejects Russia’s invasion of Ukraine).
The Colombian president, Iván Duque, He assured in a statement that the Foreign Ministry has already spoken with the authorities of Poland and Romania and will talk this Thursday with those of Hungary and Slovakia to facilitate the departure of citizens.
“68 nationals and 28 foreigners who are part of the circle or family nucleus of these people were identified. Conversations have been taking place with several countries and in coordination with our Foreign Ministry to facilitate the departure of our compatriots from Ukrainian territory”the president said in a statement.
Duque explained that his government has “Very advanced talks and coordination with Poland and Romania”, and what will you have today “talks with Hungary and Slovakia in order to give our compatriots more options to leave Ukrainian territory.”
“We want to highlight that a protocol of very high coordination of our embassies in Europe has been activated to attend to any situation that our compatriots who are in Ukrainian territory require,” Duke detailed.
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During the early hours of this Thursday, Russian troops invaded Ukraine from the east supported by tanks and bombing, by order of the head of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin.
In this sense, Duque assured that “Colombia categorically rejects the war and joins all the voices of the international community that today call for a rapid withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukrainian territory.”
“Colombia will actively participate in all the corresponding multilateral forums to seek the greatest international coordination that allows for humanitarian responses to this serious situation and that also reflects the need to apply all the corresponding sanctions,” he added.
Duque described the Russian invasion not only as a “attacks the sovereignty of Ukraine but rather the integrity of its territory and ignores both the Minsk agreements and the declarations of the UN General Assembly issued in 2014 in defense of the integrity of the territory” of the European country.
“This premeditated and unjustified aggression is a threat to world peace, it is a threat to the stability of Europe (…) This aggression also threatens the reactivation of the world economy and can generate serious disturbances in international markets and aggravate the inflationary situation that is affecting the world”said.
EFE
