Colombia advocates for a “Latin American solution” to the crisis between Mexico and Ecuador

NY. The Colombian government defends a “Latin American solution” to the crisis generated by the police assault on the Mexican embassy in Quito, Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo announced this Tuesday at the UN.

“We believe that it is important to advance a Latin American solution, to overcome this uncomfortable situation for everyone and we consider that there are scenarios where we can reach an understanding,” the chancellor said in a brief statement to the press after participating in the quarterly session of the Security Council. about the progress of his country’s 2016 peace plan.

“We are offering the good offices of Colombia and the Latin American community to overcome this fact that has had a very negative impact on the region,” he said.

A virtual meeting of presidents of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) is scheduled for next Friday, convened by the so-called ‘troika’ of this organization in which the president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, and the president of Colombia, Gustavo, participate. Petro, and the Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves.

The idea is that “a joint statement can come out” from said meeting and seek “mechanisms or make a call for a peaceful and harmonious solution to this very uncomfortable situation at the diplomatic level” in the region, said Colombian Vice Foreign Minister Elisabeth Taylor. Jay.

The Honduran presidency assured on Monday that the idea is to “promote a dialogue to normalize relations” between Ecuador and Mexico, and if not, “take political positions [contra Ecuador]whether these are joint, bilateral or in international organizations to force compliance.”