Argentina reiterates its warm request to Washington to invite Venezuela and Cuba to the US summit.
From CELAC, as well as through diplomatic channels, the government demanded that “everyone be invited”; Washington has already said that these countries and Nicaragua will not be invited to the event in June.
Conditioned In agreement with the International Monetary Fund and the need to maintain contact with the administration Joe BidenThe government is rehearsing these days Warm request to the United States to invite Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba to the US summitWhich the United States will hold in Los Angeles next month.
“We want everyone to be there, however we know the organizer has the right to invite or not invite whoever they want.“- they confirm ᲔᲠᲘ Sources of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Official sources confirmed that “in no way” the president Alberto Fernandez Will go as a Mexican peer! Andres Lopez Obrador, Who yesterday threatened not to attend the meeting unless three countries violating human rights and civil liberties by Washington are invited. A similar rhetorical path was followed by his colleague from Bolivia, The essence of LouisFor whom “the American summit, which excludes American countries, will not be a full American summit, and if the exclusion of brotherly nations continues, I will not participate in it,” the president said on social media.
Argentina took its first step from the CELAC presidency a few days ago, in a statement calling on Washington to reconsider the event. “As CELAC’s Pro Tempore presidency, we call on the summit organizers to avoid any exceptions that would impede all voices in the hemisphere in dialogue and understanding. “We are stronger together,” reads a statement issued on social media on the 2nd of this month, addressed to the Secretary of State. Anthony Blinken. “The IX America Summit is a great opportunity to build a meeting space in which all countries of the hemisphere participate openly and inclusively, within the unifying goal of the Joint Action Agreement,” the government added in a public statement.
According to personal and official sources, Casa Rosada also carried out a unilateral letter (which is not yet public) to force this presence, following in the footsteps of other Caribbean countries such as Trinidad and Tobago. Without high hopes, of course, the initiative will be successful.
In different situations
In the case of three specific requests, each of these countries has a different connection to Washington. Nicaragua, for example, recently “excluded itself” from that summit., Which will focus on the migration crisis, climate change, Covid-19 and, above all, the “fight for freedom and democracy,” as the organization reiterated. President of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega He won re-election in November, where his seven main opposition rivals were arrested or deported.
In the case of Venezuela, the United States does not recognize it Nicolas Maduro As president – he won re-election in the disputed 2025 election three years ago – and yes Juan GuaidoHe has been called the “responsible president” and which has been symbolically invited by Washington, although he will not take part (at least until now) in the presidential debate.
“If Guaido is invited to the plenary session, the situation there will change”Explained by CELAC, where the Chancellor Santiago Cafe Delegated functions to the Deputy Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs; Gustavo Martinez Pandiani. In line with the need for new time and alternative sources of oil created by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Argentina is accelerating the resumption of ties with Caracas by sending a parliamentary deputy. Oscar Laord As the new ambassador, his statement is still awaiting approval.
“They are doing good to Cuba: it is hurting itself and doing better,” they told the Casa Rosada. Miguel Diaz CanelliWho received Deputy Chief of Staff Jorge Neme a few days ago, who arrived in Havana last week on a political and economic visit.
Thus, Argentina will continue to insist through diplomatic channels that “everyone be invited,” without straining bilateral relations, as the ambassador to Washington described yesterday. Jorge ArguelloAs an “excellent and improved” annual meeting hosted by AmCham and with the US Ambassador to the country, Mark StanleyHe was sitting next to her. “It is difficult that the countries that are publicly asking have already decided not to go. “We need to see how the United States’s position develops, and the most logical and constructive thing, of course, is to demand that all countries in the region be included in the same summit with more force,” the official sources added. The presence of Argentina in the material rendezvous is accepted by itself
Source: La Nacion
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