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Published: Wednesday, 13 February 2019 07:59

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Photo: RHCLa Paz, Feb 13.- Former Colombian President Ernesto Samper reiterated in the conference The Future of Integration in Latin America in La Paz, that Venezuela requires a negotiated, just and peaceful solution.

"The most important thing is to stop the path of confrontation" said the former general secretary of the Union of South American Nations before hundreds of representatives of the diplomatic corps, students and journalists during the talk that followed the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia, Diego Pary, in the Casa Grande del Pueblo, highlights Prensa Latina.

Samper was emphatic in his exhortation to avoid a confrontation between brothers that leads to a civil war and may cross the border of his country.In reference to the policy of the United States, he commented that it is necessary to achieve an unblocking abroad, since this practice, far from solving the difficulties of the Venezuelans, makes them worse.

He criticized the current US president, Donald Trump, whom he compared with the natural disasters that affect the continent and described it as a "more serious hurricane that has happened to Latin America."

As in a press conference in which he participated previously, Samper insisted that Trump has an anti-Latin American agenda and said that you have to be a masochist to want such a partner.
In his arguments, he recalled that the current head of the White House wants to remove 10 million immigrants from the United States, build a wall on the border with Mexico to separate his country from the rest of America, renounce all international agreements and impose tariffs in an unequal trade, without complementarity.

Faced with this reality, Samper recalled that Latin America declared itself a zone of peace and regretted that when the drums of the war are beaten, several countries dare to doubt the role of Unasur.

Bolivia has held the Pro Tempore presidency of the South American bloc since April 2018, but Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay and Peru announced their intention to freeze their participation as long as the appointment of the new Secretary General is not resolved, a position left by Samper in January 2017
The former president said that all this problem places the region before a crisis in terms of integration, and detailed that it explores with the Bolivian government authorities the mechanisms to reactivate Unasur, affected by an institutional crisis.

He informed that he came to Bolivia, current president Pro Tempore of Unasur and of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac), to study with the Foreign Ministry and with the government teams some proposals that allow in some way to reactivate the integration efforts that exist at different levels.

He enumerated 10 Latin American and Caribbean mechanisms of this type that act separately, and proposed to create a convergence matrix based on everything that unites these structures.
Samper declared himself optimistic about the future, and considered that Bolivia can summon all the integrationist structures of Latin America and the Caribbean in search of convergence and, at the same time, expand collaboration with other regional and global groups. (RHC)