Montevideo. The Common Meeting of the Group of American States (OAS) authorised this Thursday by acclamation a decision supporting Bolivia and condemning the failed coup d’état in that nation.
“The OAS Common Meeting authorised a decision by acclamation “strongly” condemning the “unlawful deployment of military models” in Bolivia as “a menace to the constitutional regime” and “a flagrant insubordination to the orders of the Constitutional President” Luis Arce, and expresses solidarity with the Bolivian folks and authorities,” the group printed on the social community X after the vote that occurred within the plenary session that’s happening in Asunción.
Bolivia’s everlasting consultant to the OAS, Héctor Enrique Arce, thanked every one of many governments within the area that “instantly spoke out towards the intense occasions that occurred in La Paz on June 26.”
Arce highlighted that the worldwide neighborhood “got here out categorically towards an tried coup d’état in Bolivia, in protection of democracy, republican establishments and the rule of legislation.”
Bolivia skilled this Wednesday, at roughly 3 p.m., an tried coup d’état by former military commander Juan José Zúñiga.
Authorities later arrested the navy personnel concerned within the armed rebellion towards the federal government, together with Zúñiga.
Following the failed coup, Bolivian President Luis Arce appointed José Wilson Sánchez as the brand new commander-in-chief of the military. Sánchez referred to as on all mobilized troopers to return to their barracks and promised to defend the “legally constituted authorities.”
The Minister of Protection of Bolivia, Edmundo Novillo, assured on the evening of Wednesday to Thursday that the scenario was beneath management.
The 54th Common Meeting of the OAS is held in Asunción between June 26 and 28.
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– 2024-06-29 06:10:31
