The Foreign Minister, Francisco Bustillomade the position available and Luis Lacalle Pou denied it, according to what the president himself said this Thursday in an interview with Telemundo (channel 12).
The minister “obviously accepted the mistake” he made before the Organization of American States (OAS), the president added. And he explained: “All the ministers, the day they enter, know that the door is the entrance and the exit. In the case of Minister Bustillo we have had a relationship for many years, and with the confidence we have, he personally did it (by submitting the resignation), and I discarded it outright”.
“Materially, they acted well, formally there was an error (…) I felt obliged to speak with the chancellor and correct what was an error for me,” he reiterated. And he stated: “In most aspects of foreign relations I agree with what the minister has done”.
as he knew The Observer then, Lacalle Pou was key to changing Uruguay’s abstention in the OAS condemnationand he was the one who ordered rectify the vote. The chancery authorities did not consider it opportune to support the initiative along with 24 other countries, because Uruguay He had already made “forceful public demonstrations regarding the invasion of Ukrainian territory and condemned such actions.”
However, on the same day as the OAS resolution, Bustillo also instructed that Uruguay did not co-sponsor a UN Security Council draft resolution condemning Russian actions, signed by 82 countries and vetoed by Russia. That decision was not modified.
This Monday, after the controversy over the position in the OAS, the Uruguayan Ambassador to the United Nations Carlos Amorín intervened before the general Assembly –called urgently to analyze the conflict–, He expressed his “strong condemnation of the Russian invasion of the territory of Ukraine”, and ratified that “Uruguay co-sponsors and supports” the draft resolution that will be put to the vote in the forum.
