MADRID, 10 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, has criticized this Thursday in his first speech at the IX Summit of the Americas held in Los Angeles, the exclusion of Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela, and has reproached his American counterpart, Joe Biden, for ” impose the right of admission”.
“The fact of being the host country does not grant the ability to impose the right of admission on the member countries of the continent,” Fernández stressed, as reported by ‘La Nación’.
Thus, he lamented for the countries that were not even present, underlining that “we definitely would have wanted another Summit of the Americas.” “The silence of the absent challenges us,” he added.
Likewise, the Argentine president has criticized the United States for “blocking” Cuba and Venezuela, a term used on the island to talk about the embargo and the sanctions imposed by the North American country.
“Dialogue and diversity is the best tool to promote democracy, modernization and the fight against equality”, the president has sentenced.
The only one who had said anything about it up to that moment was the Prime Minister of Belize, Johnny Briceño, who called the exclusions “incomprehensible” because “the Summit belongs to all Americans.”
On the other hand, Fernández has said: “President Biden, I am here trying to build bridges and tear down walls. As president of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) I want to invite you to participate in our next plenary meeting”, to which Biden He replied later that he is “anxious for his invitation”, as reported by the US network CNN.
