The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, announced this Wednesday that he will not attend the next Summit of the Americas in December in the Dominican Republic after the exclusion of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela and the latest attack by the United States against an alleged drug barge in the Caribbean.
“I will not attend the Summit of the Americas in the Dominican Republic. The dialogue does not begin with exclusions,” Petro wrote in an extensive publication on his X account.
On September 30, the Dominican Foreign Ministry reported on the decision of Luis Abinader’s Government not to invite Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela to the 10th Summit of the Americas to be held on December 4 and 5 in Punta Cana, in the east of the Caribbean country.
In addition to alluding to these exclusions without directly mentioning the three countries, Petro said that he proposed to the United States a meeting with the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), an organization whose presidency pro tempore Colombia boasts, “to study the economic integration of a great America.”
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However, he added, “there was no response and what we have is aggression in the Caribbean that had been established as a zone of peace.”
US President Donald Trump reported yesterday that his country’s Army carried out a new attack against a ship in the Caribbean, near the coast of Venezuela, and confirmed the death of six “narcoterrorists.”
Petro added that at the next Summit of CELAC and the European Union (EU), which will be held in November in the Colombian city of Santa Marta, “a strong alliance based on knowledge, clean energy, artificial intelligence with global public sovereignty of its regulation will be proposed.”
He also indicated that “at the CELAC-China meeting already underway, an agreement was reached on the same terms” and that his Government also proposed a meeting of the regional organization with the African Union and the Middle East.
“I believe that the path of Latin America is the most open and deep relations with the world (sic). Latin America does not need to take sides in commercial competitions of powerful nations that are always fluctuating,” concluded the Colombian president.
EFE-OnCuba.
