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For: Real America News Updated 02 May 2022, 47: 55 pm EDT
The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, revealed that during the call he had last Friday with the US president, Joe Biden, he asked him to do not exclude any country from the Summit of the Americas to be held in California next June.
“With all due respect I proposed to President Biden that if he is going to If there is to be a Summit of the Americas, all the peoples of the Americas must participate, and no one must exclude anyone,” said the president during his roundtable. morning press from the National Palace.
This, after a few days ago the US government stated that it sees it as “unlikely” that countries like Cuba , Venezuela or Nicaragua could be summoned for the Summit.
In this regard, López Obrador criticized that a Summit of the Americas cannot be called “if we invite everyone”, he said.
” In America we cannot continue to maintain the policy of two centuries ago. In a very respectful way, how is it that we convene a Summit of the Americas, but we don’t invite everyone? Then where are those who are not invited from? From what continent? From which galaxy? From what satellite? “, questioned the Mexican president.
He pointed out that whoever does not want to go “should not go” but insisted that no nation should be excluded.
And he referred that in dialogue and not confrontation is required in the region, in addition to accusing that there is a group within the United States that opposes it because they have taken advantage of the exclusionary policy.
“Enough of thriving on people’s pain, with the suffering of the peoples”, he added.
He affirmed that in response, Biden told him that he would “consider” the proposal.
Biden has advanced that his main objective at the Summit of the Americas is “to draw a new regional approach to improve the way” in which migration in the region is managed “jointly to the next decade,” according to a recent White House statement.
With information from Efe.
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