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Colombia hosts the CELAC Extraordinary Meeting of Foreign Ministers, denouncing recent threats from the United States, particularly against the government of Venezuela. teleSUR
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00:00I'm going to give the world the floor to Nicaragua, followed by Cuba,
00:11Venezuela, Paraguay. So several are going to address this extraordinary summit of
00:18CELAC Foreign Minister. Let's begin with Nicaragua. Good morning, thank you Presidency.
00:26We want to acknowledge the Protempore Presidency for calling for this meeting. For us, it's
00:36very important that we can all reflect and address such relevant issues which is impacting
00:47stability in our region. In relation with the communique, recently we sent our statement
00:57to the Protempore Presidency in which our government, our reconciliation national unity government,
01:03co-president Daniel Artelis, Rosario Murillo, reiterated firmly the support. There are no options.
01:21The respect for our sovereignty, the respect to the no interference in internal affairs.
01:28These are vital issues for Latin American Caribbean states. So today we want also to speak against
01:43any threats or use of force in our region that put at risk our declaration that for many years
01:52we have kept as it is Latin America as a zone of peace, tranquility. And therefore, we consider
02:01also that organized crime is not faced with threats or the use of force. It's not faced by militarizing
02:13going against international laws. Ms. President, in the name of our government we want to reiterate
02:21and express our decisive support for this communication project. And we reject any interference in internal
02:28affairs. We reject any threat or maneuver using force that come to attempt against the proclamation
02:36of Latin American and Caribbean as a zone of peace. So we are here supporting. We cannot allow our region
02:46to be destabilized. Today it might be a country but tomorrow it might be all our countries. And we truly believe
02:53that we must have unity in this community of Latin American and Caribbean states. Because truly
02:59Latin American and Caribbean is a zone of peace. And we cannot allow that from the outside
03:06someone comes and puts this in jeopardy.
03:09Thank you. We continue with Venezuela.
03:19Thank you. We continue with Venezuela.
03:30Good morning, Foreign Minister from Venezuela. We want to welcome this urgent meeting of
03:43Foreign Ministers of the Community of Latin American States to go over an issue that you said at the beginning
03:53that calls us, that must call us, to an important reflection and concrete action in this organization
04:00in defense of the zone of peace declared in 2014 by 33 members of this organization. And that also has been
04:12reaffirmed in all meetings that came after. The zone of peace is a mandate that all state members of CELACs have and that
04:22invite us to carry out all necessary actions for its defense and consolidation.
04:29So we see as very opportune this meeting before the events that you were saying at the beginning of this important conference.
04:43Dear President and colleague Foreign Ministers and representatives of all the countries, we must say that the situation that we are experiencing is something unprecedented. Since the missile crisis in the 60s, when regional peace was put at risk, we had not experienced something like this.
05:12We are saying that the United States has gathered military assets near the Venezuelan coast. We are talking about eight military vessels that have on to what we know, what we have seen in media and in declarations of the spokespersons of the United States, eight vessels with over 1,000
05:421,200 missiles missiles on these vessels, over 4,000 troops trained that they have announced that they are trained and ready to invade the sacred land of our homeland, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
05:57But what is even worse, we have seen also several statements from the United States, the presence in the Caribbean of a nuclear submarine with capabilities to launch nuclear weapons, which violates not only the zone of peace that I already mentioned, declared in 2014, but that it would also be violating the
06:27the treaty of the treaty of the treaty of Latelolco, that since the year 1967, is a treaty, a binding treaty, and a treaty that since 1971, the U.S. also committed to follow the protocols and respect this treaty.
06:49So I think the main issue of this conference is to preserve the zone of peace, to condemn and demand the immediate withdrawal of these military assets from our coast and the Caribbean Sea, and reaffirm their respect to the treaty of Latelolco and the region as a zone of peace.
07:15I want also to mention that as an excuse for this deployment on our coast, they have used a completely false narrative.
07:32They have used a narrative pointing to Venezuela and our president, Nicolás Maduro, as leaders of an alleged drug cartel named Los Soles, the Sons, a cartel that has to do with drug trafficking in this region.
07:53And it's a narrative that has been dismantled by the U.S. own intelligence agencies.
08:03The report of the Department of State of the United States, the report of the United Nations for the control of drugs and organized crime.
08:16They have pointed in different occasions that Venezuela is a territory free of illegal crops.
08:27And this has been kept in time thanks to the struggle of our Bolivar National Armed Forces and the Bolivar National Police and all the deployment that the national government carries out.
08:39using vast resources and deploying important media to control those illegal activities.
08:51Also citing this report from the United Nations, we can say, and it's something I want to share with all of you,
08:57that 87% of drug trafficking, of cocaine, that comes from the production centers in Colombia and goes to the United States, 87% uses the Pacific route.
09:15And 8%, as we are seeing those reports, goes through La Guajira, and only 5% tries to go through our national territory.
09:39And of that 5%, we can show figures with pride that 70% is seized thanks to the operations that the Bolivar Republic of Venezuela carries out.
09:54This is not said by the Bolivar government.
09:58This is reflected in reports by the UN, in reports by the Department of State of the US that contradicts their own policies and have been pointed out broadly by all communication media.
10:12So we want to communicate that the narrative that they want to employ for the deployment by the US of these military assets is a narrative completely false.
10:30It's necessary that this organization, our community of Latin American and Caribbean states, comes out and condemns and demands the immediate withdrawal of these assets.
10:49And that's why we also support the statement that the Pro Temporary Presidency of Colombia has presented.
10:56I also want to say that in the name of the Bolivarian Alliance of our Peoples of America, Albatisipi,
11:03that groups 10 member countries of this organization has also demanded the same consequence with what we have said.
11:13In conclusion, dear President, we support all actions that the Colombian Republic has proposed in their character of Pro Temporary President,
11:28and we call on all the community, the 33 member countries, to take a step in defense of the sun as an area of peace.
11:40And that is, any war conflict against Venezuela, using a false pretext as it is drug trafficking, when we have shown important achievements in this aspect,
11:54would signify truly a destabilization, a complete destabilization of the entire region.
12:06Thank you very much.
12:28We have been accepted to carry out the defense of the homeland as mandated by our Constitution.
12:38Not a single aggression will be able to stop our progress, nor our plans for economic growth and prosperity for our people.
12:47And we, as you were able to see on different communication media, we are perfectly aligned.
12:55The Venezuelan people is united.
12:59Four and a half million militia men and women have enlisted for defense of our territory, for defense of our sovereignty,
13:09and for defense of the values, which are the sacred values that are on the UN Charter, the right to self-determination, sovereignty.
13:19And our president, and our president, and our president, commander-in-chief of the Vodabaya National Armed Forces,
13:24has been very clear in providing instructions and concrete orders to achieve this.
13:31So, once again, we call on CELAC and all regional actors to take on our responsibility to defend this zone of peace,
13:43the defense of the Treaty of Tlatelolco, and to put an end of this deployment,
13:52which its only reason is to threaten a sovereign people, a free people, a Bolivarian people, as it is the Venezuelan people.
14:02Once again, dear ministers and colleagues, we welcome the actions of President Gustavo Petro as pro-temperate president,
14:13and we hope that from this meeting, we can come out with the absolute rejection.
14:23...de amenazar nuestras naciones con medios nucleares, con medios militares, con barcos de guerra
14:30que son ajenos a nuestra voluntad de zona de paz. Muchas gracias.
14:34Gracias, ministro. Voy a leer el orden de la palabra, del uso de la palabra, de acuerdo al rango de presencia en la reunión.
14:47Irían los ministros de Cuba, Bolivia, Trinidad y Tobago. Después irían los vicecancilleres que han pedido la palabra,
14:56de México, Honduras, y luego los coordinadores de Argentina, San Vicente y Granadinas.
15:07Adelante, ministro. Adelante, ministro de Cuba.
15:15Muy buenos días, estimada canciller Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio, estimados cancilleres y demás representantes de la región.
15:24Good morning, representatives of the region, foreign ministers.
15:30From CUIA, we welcome the pro-temperate presidency of Colombia, of the community of Latin American states,
15:36for calling this important meeting that is necessary,
15:42and we support the action proposals that were presented this morning.
15:47As a region, we are facing enormous challenges that bring enormous risks.
15:57The strong message that we can send to those that aim to dominate us by force is that we have the strong conviction that we are more united than ever.
16:09Cuba strongly rejects the military deployment of the United States in the south of the Caribbean Sea,
16:16under the guise of anti-drug operations.
16:20With the use of naval warfare troops and submarines that represent a threat against peace in the region,
16:36and it goes against the sovereignty and the self-determination of our peoples,
16:40and against the condition of our region as an area free of nuclear weapons and a zone of peace,
16:46which was proclaimed since 2014.
16:48Dear brothers and sisters of Latin American and Caribbean,
16:51as in numerous episodes of its history, the U.S. government uses blackmail against our governments.
17:05The accusation against the legitimate government of Venezuela and its president,
17:10of being linked with criminal organizations of drug trafficking is an absurd pretext that lacks veracity.
17:24Since the U.S. its own agency for the drug control, the DEA, does not report the Venezuelan government
17:34within the actors that facilitate drug trafficking that threatens their national territory.
17:41Does the Washington government pretends that we forget that their own country is the greatest market for drug trafficking,
17:52for drugs in the world and possibly the world.
17:56They try to divert the attention to the indestructible fact that it is in that country where the largest network of consumption,
18:07distribution and drug trafficking is located,
18:12with important leaks within the U.S. economy for money laundering.
18:19The country that tries to rise as the guardian of a region is that with its rigorous weapon industry,
18:29apologies for the commerce of it and the dimension of its illegal market,
18:34strengthens the power of criminal organizations in the region
18:40and promotes the creation and operation of drug trafficking networks in Latin America and the Caribbean.
18:46Those who invaded Iraq under the alleged presence of weapons of mass destruction and only wrote about death.
18:57Those who have been historic accomplices of Israel in their genocide against the Palestinian people
19:03lack all moral to try to give lessons or to stand as a paradigm of efforts to preserve stability,
19:12that they have violated flagrantly in different occasions.
19:18The U.S. government, well known for perpetrating action and blackmail and blockades,
19:31to those that want to fight for their sovereignty and self-determination,
19:34they pretend once more to mask their interventionism in our continent with lies,
19:40as part of a scheme of domination, anchored still in the moral doctrine.
19:47Dear colleagues, we firmly condemn this irrational and aggressive military aggression of the U.S. government against the region.
20:00Guyan reiterates its commitment with the honest and efficient fight against the world problem of drugs,
20:08including the drug trafficking,
20:10and with responses based in defense of national sovereignty,
20:15promotion of security and stability of the region,
20:19and the respect for the proclamation of Latin American and Caribbean as a son of peace.
20:27We are convinced that it is not with the deployment of military forces from the U.S.
20:34that international transnational crime will be fought,
20:39drug trafficking nor irregular flows of migrants in our region.
20:45CELAC and its member countries have the obligation to demand,
20:50without hesitation, the immediate cessation of this military operation,
20:55accepted or remain silent,
21:00will establish a very serious and indigenous precedent for our peoples.
21:06The response in front of these problematics,
21:09the issues that affect our continent as it is drug trafficking,
21:14or irregular migration,
21:17requires the joint action based on dialogue and the non-interference in internal affairs
21:23of the state's cooperation, solidarity, and respect for sovereignty.
21:28The Caribbean Sea is not a son of war.
21:32Latin America and Caribbean is and must continue to be a son of peace.
21:37Thank you very much.
21:39We give the floor to the Minister of Bolivia.
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