Colombian President Gustavo Petro rejected the accusations of AN deputy Pedro Carreño that his country seeks an intervention by the blue helmets. “There are no paramilitary infiltration operations in Venezuelan territory from the government of change. “I reject such a statement,” he expressed on his official account on the social network
He colombian president Gustavo Petro responded to the accusation made by the 2020 National Assembly deputy Pedro Carreño that Colombia seeks intervention in its country by the UN blue helmets, as a consequence of the violence in the Catatumbo region.
The Chavista parliamentarian assured in the ordinary session of January 21 that the outgoing Colombian Foreign Minister, Luis Gilberto Murillo, brought the issue to the multilateral organization for that purpose.
“It is no surprise that the Foreign Minister of Colombia indicates that he is going to take the issue of the ELN to the United Nations Security Council. If the conflict is internationalized and it is determined that to eradicate and resolve it, the national border must be crossed, the invasion of the blue helmets would be fulfilled,” Carreño stated.
Regarding the accusation, the Colombian president Gustavo Petro disqualified him, denouncing, in the first place, that his government had encouraged the sending of members of counterinsurgency groups “to the brother country.”
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“Given that here the Venezuelan parliamentarian speaks about the internal policy of my government, I must respond to him for public clarity (…) There are no paramilitary infiltration operations in Venezuelan territory from the government of change. I reject such statement [sic]“Petro expressed on his official account on the social network X.
He then told him that it was on his own instruction that the issue of the complicated situation of violence in Catatumbo was discussed at the UN, among other reasons, because among the victims are ex-combatants of the extinct FARC guerrilla and that organization is the guarantor of the peace agreement.
The National Assembly (AN) of 2020 declared former Colombian presidents Álvaro Uribe Vélez and Iván Duque as public enemies of the country. The former presidents were described by the Parliament that dominates the ruling party as “paramilitaries, terrorists, drug traffickers, fascists, murderers, criminals and representatives of the international extreme right.”
The declaration of public enemies of Venezuela to Álvaro Uribe and Iván Duque was approved in the ordinary session of the National Assembly this Tuesday, January 21. Deputy Pedro Carreño (PSUV – Delta Amacuro) was the one who presented the draft agreement to the plenary session.
During the presentation, Carreño showed the parliamentarians “declassified files” that allegedly link Uribe with Pablo Escobar and drug trafficking and show irregularities in the Colombian’s efforts during his time in public administration positions.
“The straw that broke the camel’s back was that on January 11, Uribe requested an international intervention endorsed by the United Nations,” said Pedro Carreño from the speakers’ gallery of the sessions chamber of the Federal Legislative Palace.
In his opinion, “we are in the presence of a Trojan horse to inoculate Venezuela with paralimitarism.” He said that it is no coincidence that after Uribe’s statements, violence began in northeastern Colombia.
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