Venezuela: No to US Bases in South America
Havana - Venezuela rejects the presence of
seven new US military bases in South America
masked by the anti-drug drive, said
Venezuelan Ambassador to Havana, Ronald
Blanco.
Blanco said they threaten integration and
cooperation among our peoples, stability and
peace, create distress and generate
tensions.
He reminded that programs like Plan Colombia
led to increasing kidnappings and homicide
rates.
Venezuela respects self-determination of
peoples and decisions assumed by peoples,
but when they affect their own
self-determination and that of the South
American community, he explained, it is
important to reject such interventionist
policy.
"We ratify our efforts to maintain and build
a stable and harmonic relationship with
Colombia, we do not agree with the United
States strategy that aims to divide and
separate us," he said.
It is necessary to lay out cooperation
agreements of the Bolivarian Alliance of the
Peoples of our America (ALBA) and in UNASUR
-South American Union of Nations- as well as
all those that help to improve health,
education and development possibilities in
culture and sports.
We need peace to keep on building
cooperation programs and the proposal of
Venezuela relative to the military bases is
the promotion of the bases for peace, he
concluded. |
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