Uruguay and US will attend Americas’ summit: Cuba and Ecuador absent
Uruguay’s minister of Foreign Affairs Luis Almagro described on Friday as ‘inadmissible” the exclusion of Cuba from the VI Summit of the Americas scheduled for next April 14/15 in Cartagena, Colombia.
“The exclusion of a hemispheric country from a summit which encompasses all countries of the region is inadmissible and we are going to bring it up at the summit when we have the opportunity”, said Almagro speaking with reporters in Montevideo.
He added that Uruguay fully supports the Colombian efforts in the organization and attendance of the summit. Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos has just come back from a visit to Cuba where he met with President Raul Castro and Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez who is recovering from cancer surgery and radiotherapy.
However the Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa announced he will not attend the summit because “it is outrageous that in the XXI century something that calls itself the Americas Summit does not invite Cuba”.
He added that “if it is a summit of the Americas, all countries of America must be invited and attend”.
Cuba will not be present at the event in Colombia because Washington considers that the island does not comply with the conditions to attend.
The summit is “reserved for democratic countries”, active members of the Organization of American States, OAS, which expelled Cuba back in 1962, in the midst of the Cold War. However the decision was annulled in 2009 but Cuba did not accept returning to OAS.
President Barak Obama has confirmed he will be flying to Colombia for the event.
Cuban Foreign Affairs minister Bruno Rodriguez said that the exclusion of Cuba imposed by the US “is a crime and a major mistake with over half a century”.
He added Cuba did not ask to be invited or be part of the Americas’ summit and would only attend if invited on equal conditions and standing.
Cuban president Raul Castro has said that Cuba would attend if invited but is not interested in returning to OAS.
OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza speaking from Washington said he would like to see Cuba rejoin OAS, but asks why Havana is not interested in returning to the organization.
The first summit of the Americas was held in Miami in 1994 with the attendance of leaders from the 34 countries that make up OAS. Cuba has not participated in any of the five summits so far.
Insulza recalled that he worked strongly from OAS three years ago to have sanctions on Cuba lifted.
“Cuba has also been invited to a dialogue with the rest of OAS members on democracy, human rights and reincorporation” said Insulza but “Cuba is not available and that is as far as we could advance”.
“It’s strange that Cuba is interested in attending a political meeting with 34 countries and not in the reincorporation to OAS”, added Insulza.
OAS Secretary General admitted that three countries belonging to ALBA, Bolivarian Alliance, among which Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador are not expected to attend the summit in Colombia.
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Does this mean that the invitation to the Falkland Islands to attend is in the post?
Do American countries realy need any summits.?
Forget Kenya,never mind the secret madrassas,the si
nister,the shocking truth about Obama past lies not in East Africa but in the outher space .As a young man in the early 1980s ,Obama was a part of secret CIA project to explore Mars.The future president teleported there along with the future hear of Darpa.
Stilling insist that some ones served as “” maidtrounot“” of Drapa's behest
traversing the boundaries of time and space .They swear,the young Barrack Obama was one of them.
Between 1981--1983 ,Obama supposed to visit to Mars twice by a way of
teleportation chamber “” jump room“”,but it is not known what Obama exactly did in Mars ( Building Birth certificate perhaps !)
I believe in person that if Obama reelected ,the US is finally colonizing Mars.
Is @2 and @4 a good guy (one of ours) or the opposition or is he just
posting on the wrong site? Maybe he has not sobered up from last nights party. Must have been a good one.
Why is there suchs a sudden obsession with monitoring what average Americans are saying on internet Social Media.CIA(its Open Source Center -- vengeful librarians),US Air Force,FBI,Department of Homeland Security and now Fed.....
FED is planning monitoring ahat you say about it on internet Social Media...a system that would identify “” bloggers“” and “” billions conversations“” on the internet...
don't worry ...i am not American nor Russian but 100% European.
they can not understand and perceive the Economis System technics.
let them track tweets millions per day on Internet vainly.
Secret Services/Soldiers/State Officials....are just the accessories of the System...that's simple....!!
Looks like Cuba played a blinder here. The US did not think this through and two old men in their dotage have shown how stupid the US can be at times.
Far better to let them attend but keep them strictly on the agenda.
The way things are at the moment Cuba can play the injured party card.
And I agree, if it is the Americas, where is the invite for the Falklands (there are no Malvinas)?
The UK probably got the invite to represent all the British Overseas Territories in the Americas as UK has responsibility for their foreign affairs. Perhaps not. On the other hand, it has been said that the Falklands are in the South Atlantic and not in South America.
no thanks i don't like to eat soured /sticky youghurt...!!
also
i am not hunter of any poor chirping livings like birds...!!
@10,11 I'm glad people are beginning to understand that the Federation of Atlantic Territories (FAT) are not in South America and therefore of ABSOLUTELY NO CONCERN TO SOUTH AMERICANS.
Herein endeth the lesson.
Did you ever eat yoghurt with Mastica ? try it please .
You cannot play by one rule and expect others to do differently, that's called hypocrisy.
Please remember that not only did Argentina ban Jewish immigration for a great many years they also accepted a vast number of Nazi SS. Given your current foreign policy I very much doubt you did a good job of expunging them.
If you want to learn visit www.yok.com
you have a problem with nazis and jews, always talking about that.
ho** like always.LOL
No, he is just worried that Gillard, who has told the immigrant troublemakers (muslimists mainly) to leave if they don't like Australia as a Christian country. 'aussi raincloud' would probably fit the 'troublemaker' bit a treat, he's an Argie runaway after all.
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