Honduras cancel Cec Summit convened after migration crisis between Colombia and the United States

Honduras canceled this Tuesday The urgent summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) Convened for this Thursday by President Pro Tempore of the agency, Xiomara Castro, president of Honduras, to discuss issues related to migration, the environment and the unity of the region.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Honduras (Foreign Ministry) confirmed in a statement the suspension of the meeting in which the president of Colombia was going to participate in person, Gustavo Petro.

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“Honduras, in the exercise of the Pro Tempore of the CELAC, cancels the extraordinary meeting of heads of state and government,” said the Honduran Foreign Ministry.

The summit was scheduled for Thursday in a “hybrid format” and its objective was “to address the theme of the migration and continue advancing in the regional dialogue with a view to building collective strategies in front of this great problem, “as indicated by Castro.

“It is important to highlight and reiterate that CELAC, as a representative mechanism for political consultation, cooperation and integration of Latin American and Caribbean states, only adopts decisions by consensus, and Honduras, in the exercise of the Pro Tempore Presidency, has” encouraged compliance Of the common objectives to achieve regional integration and unity, including cooperation between member countries against other countries, blocks from international countries or actors, “the Honduran Foreign Ministry emphasized.

He also stressed that Honduras has “promoted the debate within the CELAC of highly sensitive issues as the situation of humanitarian crisis in Haiti, the diplomatic aggression occurred in the Mexico Embassy in Ecuador, migrants and their rights, both in the transit towards the Receiving country as within the laws of the United States, equal to the effects and social and economic impact throughout the region. “

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Las Mass deportations of migrants That the United States has started constitute “a common concern that must be addressed with objectivity and responsibility,” said the Honduran Foreign Ministry.

However, Honduras “regrets that in the case of Haiti and in this humanitarian crisis of migrants, we again received the systematic opposition of member countries” of CELAC, which “have privileged other principles and interests different from those of the Latin American region and Caribbean as a community “.

The meeting was convened on Sunday by the president of Honduras after the disagreement between the United States and Colombia, originated by the decision of the Colombian president not to allow the entry of two aircraft with deportees from the United States while those people did not receive a “worthy” treatment .

This situation led to the US president, Donald Trump, to impose 25 % tariff that the president of Colombia had responded with reciprocal measures.

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However, the White House He closed the crisis with Colombia on immigrant repatriations by ensuring at the last minute of Sunday that the government in Bogotá accepted “all the terms of President Trump” in this regard.

The Pro Tempore of CELAC presidency indicated that it will continue to seek “consensus, convening and presenting initiatives to respond to the historical problems suffered by the region”, and reaffirmed “its commitment and disposition to follow up on the Latin American integration and unity agenda and unity agenda and of the Caribbean “.