Evo:
US-Bolivia Relations Must Be of Mutual
Respect
LA PAZ - The Bolivian President Evo Morales
affirmed Thursday the re-establishment of
US-Bolivia relations must be backed by
mutual respect and far from subjugation and
interference in the internal affairs.
In a Press conference in Quemados Palace the
Head of State expressed that the northern
power will never agree that small country
like Bolivia, fully defending its dignity
and sovereignty, has expelled the US
ambassador and anti drug agency (DEA) from
that nation.
Morales position respond to recent
declarations of his US peer Barack Obama who
demanded to resume talks with the Andean
country to re-establish the Andean Trade
Preference and Drug Enforcement Act (ATPDEA)
but conditional on changes of some articles
in the Bolivian Constitution.
He wants changes in concepts related with
hydrocarbon nationalization. I want you to
know that we will not change anything;
lifelong recovery of natural resources,
stressed Morales.
Washington also imposed as requisite that
Bolivia must improve the joint struggle
against drug trafficking that could mean the
return of DEA.
In this respect the leader emphasized that
if they are talking about cooperation the
country can accept re-establishment of the
ATPDEA but without reinstating the US
antidrug agency.
That entity will never come back to Bolivia,
emphasized the Head of State.
Diplomatic relations between Bolivia and
United States entered a crisis when the
Aymara origin leader decided to expelled US
ambassador Phillip Goldberg and DEA on
September 2008, accused of conspiracy.
Inmediately, the administration of the then
President George W: Bush laid off Bolivian
ambassador Gustavo Guzman and suspended the
South American nation duties preferences in
US markets. |
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