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Insulza Defends OAS
Role, UNASUR Appoints
Envoy For Bolivian
Crisis
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Insulza Defends OAS
Role, UNASUR Appoints
Envoy For Bolivian
Crisis
SANTIAGO - General
Secretary of the
Organization of American
States (OAS) Jose Miguel
Insulza on Wednesday
defended the role of the
organization in dealing
with the Bolivian
turmoil, while the Union
of South American
Nations (UNASUR)
appointed an envoy for
the crisis.
Insulza said on a local
radio program that the
UNASUR summit on easing
the tension in Bolivia
has agreed to include
OAS as an observer in
the peace talks.
He said it was
"completely wrong" that
the OAS had been
excluded from the
dialogue aimed at
solving the Bolivian
crisis.
The general secretary
said, "UNASUR was born a
few months ago, so we
have to get used to
discussing South
American issues within
the UNASUR, and not in
the OAS."
On Thursday, the senior
OAS official will travel
to La Paz,
administrative capital
of Bolivia, to meet with
Bolivian Foreign
Minister David
Choquehuanca and
President Evo Morales.
Meanwhile, Chilean
President Michelle
Bachelet, UNASUR's
temporary president, on
Wednesday appointed
former Chilean Foreign
Minister Juan Gabriel
Valdes as the
organization's envoy to
coordinate the dialogue
between the Bolivian
government and the
opposition forces.
Bachelet said that she
appointed Valades
because she could not
"personally" attend the
talks in Bolivia. |
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