The UN failed to prevent the Russian invasion of Ukrainesaid this Wednesday the Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorwho urged to continue the search for a negotiated solution.
“I believe that the UN did not do its job well,” said the leftist president when questioned by the press about a telephone conversation he had on Tuesday with the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeauon humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
“Dialogue must be sought more than anything, and a negotiated solution must be sought. The war should not have started, it should have been avoided. What is gained after a war begins with sanctions or by sending weapons? Nothing! And the innocent “The policy failed, but there is still time,” he added.
He commented that Trudeau invited him to participate in a teleconference, next Saturday, in which European Union leaders will also participate to coordinate humanitarian support to the Ukrainians.
López Obrador announced that he will send a video message to the meeting to ratify Mexico’s position on the conflict.
“Our position is to condemn the invasion because we have suffered from invasions“, he said, listing the interventions that Mexico has suffered throughout history, including that of the United States, which in 1848 annexed almost half of the Mexican territory.
Mexico condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but refuses to join the sanctions against Moscow.
A minority party allied with the ruling party created at the end of March a Mexico-Russia friendship group in the Chamber of Deputieswhich sparked criticism from the Mexican opposition and from the US and Ukrainian embassies.
At the same time, Glen VanHerck, head of the US Northern Command, assured that in Mexico there is the largest number of members abroad of the GRU, the Russian military intelligence.
Mexico is not “a colony of Russia, or China, or the United States,” López Obrador replied on that occasion.
