The Colorado deputy Ope Pasquet questioned this Friday the Broad Front (FA) and also the Cabildo Abierto for the position taken in the face of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
After the statement released by the FA About the armed episode that broke out in Eastern Europe and that keeps the world on edge, the Colorado expressed on his Twitter account: “They call Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a ‘conflict between Russia and Ukraine’, with the same logic with which Uruguay abstained from voting to condemn Russia by the UN General Assembly, when it invaded Crimea in 2014.”
He also described as “regrettable” the statement made by the Presidency of the FA, which was released on Thursday.
They call Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a “conflict between Russia and Ukraine”, with the same logic with which ROU abstained from voting to condemn Russia for the Ablea. General of the UN, when he invaded Crimea in 2014. Unfortunate. https://t.co/dy4rpXixih
— Ope Pasquet (@opepasquet) February 24, 2022
Pasquet also disagreed with the statements of the senator from Cabildo Abierto (CA), Guillermo Domenech. “It must be said that it is clearly an invasion and that Uruguay condemns it,” Pasquet told The Observer.
Within the framework of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the CA senator declared: “It is a good time for Uruguay to reconfirm its adherence to the peaceful settlement of disputes, non-intervention and self-determination of peoples.” In addition, the lobbyist said that “Uruguay must stay away from these conflicts”as published The country. “Neither by Russia nor by the United States. He is the one in the middle. My opinion is the same as (Luis Alberto de) Herrera: neither Russians nor Yankees”, Domenech also pointed out.
CA’s “spokesperson is on the wrong track and is wrong to remember Herrera’s phrases, which are from another era and from another context; the thing is between Russia and Ukraine, not with the United States, inventing a third position when that country is not in the mess”, Pasquet explained to The Observer.
On the other hand, Pasquet supported the position of President Lacalle Pou, as well as the statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “Uruguay cannot be oblivious to the defense of the basic principles of International Law, because that is what is at stake and because our own security depends on them,” he added.
Pasquet will be the next president of the Chamber of Deputies as of March 1.
