He President Gustavo Petro He has insisted on the recent days of the importance of prohibiting the export of coal bound for Israel and invited the Swiss citizens and guajiros to Block Glencore operationscompany in charge of the exploitation of this mineral in Cerrejón, in the department of La Guajira.
“I ask Glencore that this infrastructure that has useless is used for Colombian society“said the president, who also talked about The possibility of unilaterally renegotiating the concession contract delivered to Glencore If the aforementioned company ignored the calls of the National Government.
It is worth mentioning that the Head of State has insisted that the country should not export this mineral to this Asian country following the violent escalation with Hamasarmed group that has under its control to the Gaza Strip.
(Further: Colombia could be ‘challenging’ the United States with coal veto towards Israel).
According to Cerrejón, its reputation is being affected and that of Colombia as a reliable supplier in the international coal market.
Cerrejón
“It is forbidden to export coal to Israel, it is an order of the president of Colombia. That use the WTO treaty that indicates that every treaty that is done with a country that violates humanitarian law is canceled“Petro said in his speech at the CELAC Ministerial Meeting.
The strong words against the former Minister of Commerce, Luis Carlos Reyes
Within the framework of his speech at the Ministerial Meeting of Energy of the CELAC, the president signed up harshly against his former Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism, Luis Carlos Reyesensuring it would have allegedly fooled it for not having included in the decree of prohibition of exports of this first matter to companies that export coal to the Asian country. Therefore, he also called him from “accomplice“Of what happens in Gaza.
(You can read: Petro lashed out against Luis Carlos Reyes for coal exports to Israel).
“My Minister of Commerce Reyes, cheated on me, did not take the decree to the legal filters, or I would have realized that there were two words that excluded coal exporters from the presidential prohibition to export coal. Reyes, complicit of genocide in Gaza“Petro said.
Luis Carlos Reyes, Minister of Commerce.
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However, the former director of the DIAN said shortly after Petro himself who insisted at that point: “President, from the Ministry of Commerce we gave a great fight against the clause that returned the harmless decree. Even so, you imposed it yourself, claiming that the Mossad had infiltrated us and that if we did not put the Constitutional Court the decree knocked“
(You may be interested: Reyes says that Petro puts his life at risk by accusing him as an accomplice of genocide).
Later, in an interview for ‘Caracol Radio’, Reyes said that the words of the Head of State against him “puts my life at risk”, and reiterated that From the MINCIT he did everything possible to prevent such clause from being reflected in the decreeleaving it if any effect.
“First of all, he reads what he signs. Second, it was he who insisted on those words, in that clause that today criticizes, despite the repeated warnings of my part and all the officials of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism that worked in this Decree“said the former official
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