The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) rejected on Wednesday “the imposition of unilateral coercive measures, contrary to international law, including restrictive international trade.”
This is expressed by the “Declaration Project” issued in the IX Summit of Heads and Heads of State and Government of the CELAC held in Tegucigalpa.
As the Chancellor of Honduras, Eduardo Enrique Reina, informed the press, there was “sufficient consensus of the 30 states,” except for three, “to adopt the Tegucigalpa Declaration.”
That three that distanced themselves, from a total of 33, “they are countries that for their own reasons decide not to adopt the resolution, are Argentina, Paraguay and Nicaragua,” said Honduran Foreign Minister.
He added that “they will present later (the reasons), but the statement is generic, 30 countries cannot wait for three countries, they decide to adopt it.”
The project highlights “the full validity of the proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a peace zone, based on the promotion and respect for the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations Organization and International Law.”
It adds “international cooperation, democracy and the rule of law, multilateralism, the protection and promotion of all human rights, respect for self -determination, non -interference in internal affairs, sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
In addition, they affirmed “their common conviction that it is appropriate and adequate that a national person from a State of Latin America and the Caribbean occupies the General Secretariat of the United Nations Organization, considering that of the nine general secretaries that the UN has had to date, only one came (the Peruvian Javier Pérez de Cuéllar) of a state of the region and remembering that the position has never been occupied by a woman”.
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The project also gives the “welcome” to Colombia whose presidency pro time for CELAC will assume today the president of that country, Gustavo Petro, who at the summit said that the world lives “a tension between multilateralism and loneliness”, so he advocated an agenda of collaboration between countries.
It also points out the importance of addressing issues such as “energy (energy transition and interconnection), human mobility, health and health self -sufficiency, food security, environment and climate change; indigenous and Afro -descendant peoples, science, technology and innovation; connectivity and infrastructure; strengthening of trade and investment; transnational organized crime, education, and gender equality, among others”.
They also endorsed “their firm support” to the stability of Haiti already “contribute decidedly, according to the capacities of each country”, to support the Caribbean country in their efforts, “together with the international community and the United Nations, to restore a human security environment for the normalization of the political, economic and social situation, with a comprehensive development of development.”
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The IX Summit of Heads of State and Government of the CELAC was attended, in addition to Petro, by Claudia Sheinbaum, of Mexico; Luis Arce, from Bolivia; Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, from Brazil; Miguel Díaz-Canel, from Cuba; Yamandú Orsi, from Uruguay; Bernardo Arévalo, from Guatemala, among other leaders.
With EFE information
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