ALBA-TCP Rejects Panama’s Call for a Meeting to Discuss the Venezuelan Situation
Teachers in Monagas demonstrate their support for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Aug. 8, 2024. Photo: X/ @PartidoPSUV
August 8, 2024 Hour: 9:37 am
This call seeks to replicate the failed actions of the Lima Group, with identical destabilization and coup-driven intentions.
On Wednesday, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) rejected Panamanian President Jose Mulino’s request to hold a regional meeting to discuss the political situation in Venezuela.
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“The ALBA-TCP member states categorically reject the call by the government of the Republic of Panama for an interventionist meeting to address Venezuela’s internal affairs, in blatant violation of the sovereignty and self-determination of that sister nation,” ALBA-TCP Secretary Jorge Arreaza said.
“This interventionist call seeks to replicate the failed actions of the so-called Lima Group, with identical destabilization and coup-driven intentions, publicly stating that the objective of this meeting would be to ‘test more actions that support democracy in the South American brother country,'” he explained.
ALBA-TCP emphasized that the handling of any regional issue must be conducted with full respect for international law and the United Nations Charter, including the principle of non-intervention in the internal affairs of states.
On August 2, Panamanian President Mulino refused to recognize the results of the presidential elections issued by the Venezuelan National Electoral Council and sided with the far-right politician Edmundo Gonzalez in his attempt to declare himself president of Venezuela.
Currently, ALBA-TCP is composed of Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Dominica, and Saint Lucia.
This regional integration institution invited Latin American and Caribbean countries to respect the decisions and mechanisms of each state and their legitimate institutions.
teleSUR/ JF Source: ALBA-TCP – EFE
