Pedro Castillo spoke about corruption at the Summit of the Americas, but did not say anything about Juan Silva

The president of the Republic, peter castlehighlighted this Wednesday, June 8, the actions to confront corruption, which were approved at the Summit of the Americas held in 2018 in Peru, however, he did not mention issues such as those of the former minister Juan Silva.

During his speech at the opening ceremony of the IX Summit of the Americasin Los Angeles, California, the president also highlighted the benefits that this initiative has had for almost three decades, “common heritage” of the continent.

He remembered that 4 years ago the Lima Commitment embodied 57 actions to guide the efforts of our countries to combat and eradicate corruption, and strengthen democratic governance and the protection of human rights.

“On that occasion, the countries of the Americas also established the need to go beyond the mere adoption of agreements and recognized the importance of giving continuity to the commitments reached”he expressed.

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“For them, we have enabled a monitoring mechanism that allows both the states and civil society organizations and, in general, the citizens of the continent, to verify the fulfillment of each of the commitments and to know the degree of progress of the enlargement. of public policies against corruption.he added.

Castle Lumps He stated that our hemisphere currently faces “renewed challenges” arising from the difficult situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the international situation.

“For this reason, we welcome with great satisfaction that many of these concerns have been reflected in the topics rightly proposed by the United States in its capacity as host country, in the objective of building healthy practices to be advanced on what has been advanced and outlining initiatives that allow us to alleviate the multidimensional crisis that we have been going through and that severely and dramatically hits the most disadvantaged sectors of our population”narrowed down

Finally, the president expressed confidence that the meeting in Los Angeles, opened with great controversy because Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela were not invited, can contribute “a significant achievement” to strengthen joint actions on the continent.

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