The United States government has not closed the door to invite the governments of Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba to the IX Summit of the Americas, to be held on June 6 in Los AngelesCalif.
“The invitations have not been issued,” said White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki, when asked by reporters about the declarations of the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, not to attend in case the prohibition to be maintained. the three countries.
“If everyone is not invited, a representative of the Mexican government will go, but I would not go,” he warned at the daily briefing offered by the president, who just visited Havana on his recent trip to Central America.
A little over a week ago, the Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere, Brian Nichols, confirmed in an interview for the channel NTN24, that the three countries mentioned would not be invited. “They do not respect the Democratic Charter of the Americas and therefore I do not expect their presence,” he said.
Psaki, however, stressed this Tuesday at the press conference that “the final decisions have not been made.”
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