Venezuela: US Defeated
at OAS
Venezuela has called the
rejection by the
Organization of the
American States of
Colombia's military
incursion into Ecuador a
defeat of the US and its
preventive war.
The text condemns the
Colombian military and
police force offensive
in the Ecuadorian
province of Sucumbios on
March 1, 2008, and
considers it a clear
violation of articles 19
and 21 of the OAS
charter.
In a statement to local
press from the
headquarters of that
organization in
Washington, Venezuelan
Foreign Minister Nicolas
Maduro said that the
document ratified the
position adopted by the
Rio Group on March 7.
"The big step made in
Santo Domingo was much
greater than this OAS,
which the US simply
tried to sabotage,
boycott, blockade in
different ways like they
have done for years,"
noted Maduro.
According to the
Venezuelan minister, the
position adopted by
Washington at the
meeting shows that "OAS
fails to meet the needs
of our peoples."
It was the Rio Group,
Latin America and the
Caribbean, with their
spirit of identity and
unity, that found a way
to bring down tensions,
bring positions closer,
overcome differences,
admit mistakes, and make
the first steps to
normalize relations,
said Maduro. |
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