The Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, said Monday that his American counterpart, Donald Trump, deserves to go to jail if he continues to support Israel’s “genocide” in the Gaza Strip.
“If Mr. Trump is still an accomplice of a genocide as to this day, he does not deserve more but the prison. And his army should not obey it,” Petro said in a Council of Ministers transmitted to the country, in which the table was adorned with several Palestinian flags.
The US Department of State withdrew the visa to Petro last Friday to urge soldiers from that country “to disobey orders and incite violence,” During a proportive demonstration in New York that requested the high fire in Gaza and reproached the trip of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamín Netanyahu, to intervene before the UN.
According to Petro, “the United States does not really recognize international law” because he did not arrested Netanyahu when he traveled to New York to pronounce his speech before the UN General Assembly being that “the Rome Statute describes what the crimes against humanity or war crimes are” to take those responsible for the International Criminal Court (ICC).
“Any person, of any nationality, judged in those courts is captured by any country if it passes there. Then Netanyahu is captured in the United States,” Petro said.
The president added that this did not happen with the Israeli prime minister “because the treaties of international law disobey and in that Trump becomes complicit.”
The United States, however, did not ratify the Rome Statute, which is the constitutive instrument of the ICC.
In his speech, Petro reiterated his approach that, after what happened in recent days, “the United Nations does not have to continue in New York” and considered “stupidity of the United States government” to revoke the visa.
“It is breaking international law and has no right to take the visa to anyone who is going to speak to the United Nations or about issues that are in the discussion of the United Nations. That is the world law (…) If Trump forgets that or does not tell him or not read, because someone reads him,” he said.
The president recalled that Colombia will be part of January 2026 of the UN Security Council as a non -permanent member, although neither his Foreign Minister, Rosa Villavicencio, have a visa, as the Minister of Foreign Affairs today resigned from that travel document in solidarity with the President.
To conclude, Petro said: “The United Nations cannot be kneeling that is making a genocide complicit. Then we act, we will see if we are left alone or not,” said the Colombian president without mentioning any mention of Trump’s peace plan for Gaza presented today. EFE
