The delegation of the European Union to the United Nations Organization (UN) on Monday, September 26, urged the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo to “return the sovereignty of Nicaragua to the Nicaraguan people” and “restore democracy” in the country, where the human rights of the population are systematically violated.
“The EU urges the Nicaraguan authorities to comply with their own commitments, the Nicaraguan Constitution and international human rights laws and standards,” said the EU delegation during its intervention at the 77th General Assembly of the United Nations.
He also warned that, since the voting of November 7, 2021, the repression has continued and the situation has deteriorated even more.
“The Nicaraguan authorities must end all repression, including repression against political opponents, clergy, independent media, civil society and human rights defenders, and guarantee full respect for human rights, including freedom of assembly, association, expression, and religion or belief,” the delegation said.
Likewise, the EU reiterated its “urgent” call to the Nicaraguan authorities to release “immediately and unconditionally” all political prisoners and annul all legal proceedings against them, including their sentences.
The EU delegation also called for the re-establishment of “an inclusive dialogue between government and opposition, and genuine democracy” and the return to the country of international human rights bodies, including the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). ) and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
Nicaraguan Foreign Minister says that “there is peace”
Meanwhile, the Nicaraguan Foreign Minister, Denis Moncada Colindres, used most of his speech at the UN General Assembly to condemn “colonialist imperialism”, show solidarity with his political allies and only referred to the fact that “there is peace” in Nicaragua.
“It is time to bring the rights of peoples closer to a United Nations Organization that represents us all and that does not submit to the designs of any imperialist power,” Moncada warned at the beginning of his speech.
“It is time to continue rejecting the criminal blockades… the aggressions, called sanctions, illegal, arbitrary, illicit, that highlight the perversion of a system and a model, imperialist and capitalist, that continues and intends to continue ‘punishing’ and bleeding to the world, in the sight and docile patience of the organizations that should defend it,” continued the Nicaraguan foreign minister.
The sanctions to which Moncada alluded have been implemented by countries such as the United States, Canada and the European Union bloc against officials of the Nicaraguan regime, who have been accused of committing serious violations of the human rights of Nicaraguans.
“It is time to enforce the principle of “sovereign equality of States” in all international organizations and forums, so that this multipolar and non-aligned world that we have so much sought becomes a reality, becomes stronger, grows and includes us all. everyone… In Nicaragua, sisters and brothers, there is a country, and because there is a country, there is peace!” concluded the Nicaraguan foreign minister.
Concerned Latin American governments
Although the Ortega regime has ignored the sociopolitical crisis that Nicaragua is experiencing during the UN General Assembly, several Latin American governments have expressed their concern about the constant violations of the human rights of Nicaraguans and the migratory wave that this has generated in the last years.
The president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, He called for “contributing” to the release of Nicaragua’s political prisoners, and said during his speech last Tuesday that the problems that afflict the different societies are solved with “more democracy and not less.”
Boric called “to carry out the necessary actions, and not just declarations, and put an end to the abuse of the powerful anywhere in the world, to continue working to contribute to the release of political prisoners in Nicaragua.”
President Jair Bolsonaro also invited the religious who are “persecuted” by the Nicaraguan authoritiesduring his speech last Tuesday before the UN General Assembly.
Bolsonaro, who as president of Brazil, following the tradition of the UN, was the first of the heads of state and government to intervene before the general Assemblycondemned the religious persecution that exists in the world and cited the case of Nicaragua.
“I want to announce that Brazil is opening its doors to welcome the persecuted priests and nuns in Nicaragua,” Bolsonaro, who is a strong defender of conservative values associated with Christianity, told the UN.
