The call of President Gustavo Petro To create a “Civilizations Alliance“To defend Palestine of Israel It continues to generate reactions, knowing its well -known position against the conflict that has been developing in the Middle East since 2024.
“Forming an armed force to defend the life of the Palestinian people, words and weapons play today. They are not unreasonable blue helmets and sometimes indisposed for what it touches, it is a powerful army of countries that do not accept genocide“Petro said in the last United Nations General Assemblyin New York.
And he added: “If humanity shows that an army can lead to release Palestine, many Israelis, armed or not, will sit down to negotiate before the first shot sounds. The word and civilization must have value“
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Among the reactions after the president’s words recently arose Body of Generals and Admirals in Retirement of Military Forceswhich expressed concern about the proposed by Petro, considering that these decisions have deteriorated the bilateral relations of Colombia with the United States and other strategic partners.
President Gustavo Petro against the UN
Similarly, they emphasized the retirement of Visa to the first president, after their appearance in the streets of New York, in which he invited members of the US army to “disobey“To his counterpart Donald Trump Within the framework of the conflict in Gaza, as well as its possible effects.
“The intervention in Public Square that motivated the revocation of the visa to the first president, together with the subsequent actions that have been advanced in that context, generate a scenario that contributes to the development or adequate international positioning of our country. On the contrary, these decisions mining the levels of mutual trust and directly affect the fundamental mechanisms of cooperation in multiple strategic areas“The body mentioned.
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And he added: “We ask the National Government to act with moderation in the management of this situation, to impart clear instructions so that the institutions continue to maintain a fluid dialogue and coordination with their counterparts, privilege the national interest over any consideration of ideological nature or political interest“
Mindefense does not rule out sending troops to Gaza
In dialogue with the newspaper El Tiempo, the Defense Minister Pedro Sánchezsaid that “If it is estimated and ordered in that same line to do something similar for another region of the world, we will do so ”, clarifying that only the UN has the power to form multinational peace forces and that any Colombian intervention would be subject to an international mandate“
“The United Nations has the power to form, to develop multinational forces for the maintenance of peace and through this mechanism, once it is determined in the diplomatic pathways, as it will be agreed“he explained, specifying that the possibility of sending troops to Loop It is a UN power with multinational forces.
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Pedro Sánchez, Minister of Defense
Instead, experts say that the proposed by President Petro in the United Nations is “impossible“To fulfill and that previously responds to a”Luck of populist rhetoric”
“No one is bombing Latin America. It is impossible that an army of the world is believed to defend Gaza precisely because what is happening is a matter of humanitarian and geopolitical dynamics that of course do not have much to do with whom he defends militarily to whom“, said César Niño, Professor of International Relations at Military University Granadato the same newspaper.
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