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Moscow, September 1. – The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC, for its acronym in Spanish) has convened the foreign ministers of its member states to an emergency meeting to address concerns surrounding recent military movements in the Caribbean, the Colombian Foreign Ministry, which holds the agency's pro tempore presidency, announced in a statement this Sunday.
The meeting will take place this Monday, September 1, at 10:00 a.m. (Colombian time) and will be held virtually. The document states that Colombian Foreign Minister Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio Mapy intends for this meeting to also address the potential implications for regional peace, security, and stability of the presence of US military forces in the Caribbean.
"The objective of this meeting will be to exchange views and reflections on the regional situation […]. The intention is to strengthen channels of dialogue and cooperation, recognizing that transnational challenges require joint and coordinated responses," the Colombian Foreign Ministry stated.
"Latin America and the Caribbean have been proclaimed a Zone of Peace, and in that spirit, this ministerial dialogue is being convened, with the expectation of contributing to greater understanding and the search for concerted solutions for the benefit of the entire region," the statement concludes.
Caracas has considered Washington's announcement of the deployment of naval and air forces to the southern Caribbean Sea, under the pretext of fighting drug trafficking, to be acts of surreptitious aggression that do not correspond to reality, given the lack of evidence to support the US justice system's version.
In response, last week was held in Venezuela the second day of voluntary enlistment in the Bolivarian Militia, after the massive attendance recorded during the first round, which took place last weekend in all Bolívar places in the country.
The US military threat has been rejected by several Latin American countries. The nations that make up the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA, for its acronym in Spanish) condemned the deployment at a virtual summit held on Wednesday. The leaders of Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, and Bolivia also criticized Washington's actions. They were joined by China and Russia, with whom the Venezuelan government maintains close ties. (Text and photo: RT)
