Colombian President Gustavo Petro, on an official go to to Spain, known as on Thursday for the beginning of unconditional peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.
“Latin America’s position is that there should be a peace agreement because we have suffered an increase in hunger due to the rise in food prices,” Petro mentioned in an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País.
“We are not interested in this war continuing,” the left-leaning politician mentioned, with out acknowledging that Russia invaded Ukraine greater than 14 months in the past.
At a press convention with Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Thursday, Petro added that extra folks have been killed within the conflict on medicine in Latin America through the years than within the wars in Ukraine, Syria or Iraq.
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has made related calls for. Both Petro and Lula haven’t accepted the declare that Russia, because the invader, is solely guilty for the conflict.
“This discourse does not seem honest to us,” Petro mentioned. “The same [countries] that reject this invasion have also carried out invasions…And I’m not just referring to the invasions in the Middle East, but also the ones Latin America has suffered.”
Petro, in a speech to the decrease home of the Spanish parliament in Madrid on Wednesday, additionally criticized local weather change deniers and pushed for renewable and clear vitality.
“We have a mission, which is to save humanity,” he mentioned. “Either we change or we die out.” The speech was boycotted by the right-wing populist celebration Vox.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
