Gustavo Petro affirmed that Trump vetoed his attendance at the signing of the peace plan for Gaza

He President Gustavo Petro He stated this Sunday that his American counterpart, Donald Trumpvetoed his attendance at the signing ceremony of the peace plan for Loopattended on Monday by numerous world authorities in the Egyptian spa city of Sharm el Sheikh.

Petro made the statement on his X account when commenting on the boos at White House special envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoffwhen he mentioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuin a speech delivered Saturday to thousands of protesters gathered in Tel Aviv’s Hostage Square.

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“Trump vetoes him from going to the peace signing on Gaza, but he sends his envoy to Israel and it is Trump’s envoy who is being gossiped about. Even Trump doesn’t understand the world. It’s the time of the people, Trump“said Petro, who is a staunch defender of Palestine.

The meeting in Sharm el Sheikh was co-chaired by Trump and the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al Sisiand leaders such as the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, the Frenchman Emmanuel Macron and the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, among others, attended.

(You can read: ‘It is the dawn of a new Middle East’: Trump celebrates truce between Israel and Hamas).

In another message on his X account, the President said that he wants to demand the decision of the United States delegation to the UN to leave the General Assembly grounds on September 23, when he was giving his speech.

“I want to get under a US judge, and sue the acts that broke immunity in the UN assembly for vetoing me, and I want an American and libertarian lawyer to help me. I don’t have much money, but if we win the lawyer will go down in history. A lawyer like John Quincy Adams“, he expressed.

In his speech at the eightieth session of the UN General Assembly, Petro invited “the nations of the world and their people above all, as part of humanity, to unite armies and weapons” to “liberate Palestine” and criticized the US-led war on drugs.

(Read also: Petro promises to help rebuild Gaza and announces more aid for Palestinian victims).

Representatives of the American delegation who were still in the facility abandoned it amid Petro’s criticism of his Government.

Three days later, at an event held in New York against the Israeli war in Gaza, Petro asked American soldiers to disobey orders from his government in order to allow a future “salvation army” for Palestine to operate, which led the State Department to cancel his visa the same day.

EFE