MADRID, 26 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the Government, Secretary General of the PSOE and President of the Socialist International, Pedro Sánchez, has opted for a Socialist International (SI) that is a global benchmark for thought and action of progressive policies.
This was expressed by Sánchez this Sunday before the SI Latin American and Caribbean Committee held in Santo Domingo, after the end of the XXVIII Ibero-American Summit. “We must work with unity and coordination among all the members, reinforcing” the coordination of sister parties in Latin America “, he declared.
In this context, the SI president has insisted on the need to implement a “fair, sustainable and resilient social agenda in Ibero-America as part of the green and digital transitions that not only this continent but also the whole of humanity”, he remarked.
Likewise, Sánchez has assured that the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU that Spain will hold will be an “extraordinary opportunity to strengthen the link that unites the European project with Latin America”, also expressing his “maximum commitment” to lead the presidency with “decision so that it translates into tangible results for Latin America and the Caribbean”.
In line, he took advantage of his intervention to recall the work carried out by the management team that emerged from the SI Congress held in Madrid. On the one hand, the commitment to democracy and freedoms in Nicaragua with the offer of Spanish nationality to Nicaraguan citizens deprived of it and their property.
In addition, he stressed the efforts for the release of the former president of the Kyrgyz Republic, Almazbek Sharshénovich Atambayev, and an act in solidarity with Iranian women in New York, with the presence of the SI Secretary General, Benedicta Lasi, “giving voice to the activists who are risking their lives in that country and who also had the participation of the UN”.
To end his speech, he assured that the work this weekend of both the Committee and the Forum with progressive governments with Ibero-American leaders, become a starting point “in the common desire that unites us: a renewed Socialist International endowed with global weight. That it is capable of transmitting, in the great global conversation, a more alive ideology that represents the majorities and more necessary than ever like ours”, he has settled.
