Argentina, as pro-tempore President of CELAC, called for ideological divisions to be overcome
In a clear message to their organizers this Monday, the Puebla Group and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) called for a Summit of the Americas to be held without excluding any nation.
“The Puebla Group invites the government of President (of the United States, Joe) Biden to hold the next Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles in June, without excluding the governments of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua,” he told the Political Group in an explanation.
According to this forum of left-wing political leaders, there is no point in ignoring those countries that have suffered “the social cost of the predatory effects of the COVID-19 virus” when, in the end, the central theme of the summit will be tackling the pandemic and climate change in of the region.
“All Latin American countries need international cooperation and economic exchanges to bear the social burden and deal with economic reactivation as a result of the pandemic. Some of them, like Cuba, could even contribute a lot of new experiences to prevent and eradicate the virus and its possible new variations,” he said.
Likewise, he stressed that this would be discrimination on ideological grounds, which would affect the possibilities of regional cooperation needed to overcome the coming crises.
📄 THE PUEBLA GROUP INVITES A SUMMIT OF AMERICA TO HELD WITHOUT EXCLUSIONS IN THE USAhttps://t.co/7JWtMDVKf1
— Puebla Group (@ProgresaLatam) May 1, 2022
For its part, CELAC insisted that “it is essential that we overcome ideological divisions and focus on finding coincidences” due to the severe fallout that the coronavirus pandemic has left in the region.
This multilateral organization claims dialogue and cooperation as key tools for the well-being of peoples. For this reason, he believes that this Summit of the Americas “represents a great opportunity to create a space for encounters in which all countries of the hemisphere participate in an open and inclusive manner, with the unified goal of concerted action”.
The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, particularly Argentina, the country that holds the pro tempore presidency of this intergovernmental body, urged organizers to “avoid exclusions that prevent all the voices of the hemisphere from speaking to one another and being heard.” .