He President Gustavo Petro The Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union (EU)of which his country will host on November 9 and 10 in Santa Marta, and demanded that Europe asks for “sorry“For the crimes committed during colonization.
“Understanding was the idea of Santa Marta, there we have gathered the Celac-Europa Summit“Petro said in an official act in the town of Timbío, in the department of Cauca (southwest).
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However, the president asked: “What are we going to talk about? What can Latin America and Europe talk about if they continue to insult us? If they still think that we are only here to obey“, while criticizing that Europeans”They have not asked us forgive“By the”genocide“Against the ancestral peoples.
“We have to talk about the European Celac-Union meeting“The president added in the act, in which he criticized the European Parliament, That this Thursday approved a resolution in which he condemns political violence in Colombia and points to his government of feeding polarization with incendiary statements.
European Parliament.
According to the president, European parliamentarians “They do not know how to understand our country, as the Castilians who arrived on horseback killing millions of indigenous people in these lands of America did not understand“
The President said that Europe “Here came with cross and sword (…) to kill already generate a genocide (…) against all the indigenous civilizations that were here“
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The Caribbean city of Santa Marta, capital of the Department of Magdalenawas chosen in April as the headquarters of the IV Summit UE-Celac, which will be co-chaired by Petro, in its capacity as President Pro Tempore de la Celac, and by the President of the European Council, António Costa.
The appointment is also planned to attend the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyenand the President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sáncheztogether with leaders of the 27 EU countries and the 33 of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Santa Marta
The third UE-Celac summit was held in July 2023 in Brussels and in it the leaders pledged to organize summits every two years.
Colombia will be the second one in Latin America. The first was held in Santiago, Chile in January 2013 and the next two took place in Brussels in 2015 and 2023.
EFE
