05/01/2024
The head of state, Gustavo Petro, announced from the Plaza de Bolívar in the middle of the May 1 marches that from this Thursday All diplomatic relations with Israel are broken. The president took advantage of his speech to send his support to Palestine.
“Today, humanity in all the streets agrees with us: The era of genocide, of the extermination of an entire people before our eyes, before our humanity, cannot return. If Palestine dies, humanity dies,” Petro justified.
“Today the world could perhaps be summed up in one word“house”, is called “Palestine”they are called boys and girls and babies,” the president said in his speech.
“If Palestine dies, humanity dies and we are not going to let it die,” was the phrase with which Petro emphasized his support for the Palestinian people.
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As he knew THE COLOMBIAN In recent days, President Gustavo Petro’s interest in breaking relations with Israel, which he had already stated on several occasions, was not just words.
According to intelligence sources in the United States, the Petro government would have advanced talks with other countries to replace the cooperation and collaboration that the Israeli government has historically had with Colombia. In the case of security issues, the government would have advanced talks with Saudi Arabia and on the issue of weapons with China. Apparently, everything is ahead of schedule.
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President Petro has been close to the people of Palestine, beginning to separately summon ambassadors Gali Dagan and Raouf Almalki to the Casa de Nariño on October 30, 2023 with the aim of “that opens the way for two independent and free states.” Since then, the president insisted on the end of the war, but in favor of Palestine.
“Perhaps I was the only president in the world to denounce at the United Nations how he was treated with hypocrisy by the great world powers, the Russian occupation of Ukraine and the Israeli occupation of Palestine. I proposed two international Peace conferences to resolve both conflicts and find peace,” Petro said.
During several interventions before the UN, the Government of Colombia has demanded from the parties a ceasefire during Ramadan that leads to a sustained ceasefireas well as the immediate release of all hostages, barrier-free access to humanitarian aid, and the strengthening of the protection of civilians throughout the Gaza Strip.
“We trust that the opening of the Erez crossing and the Ashod port for the entry of humanitarian aid to the population of Gazawhich is subject to catastrophic famine, as well as the end of Israel’s active ground invasion in the south of the Strip, are effective steps that contribute to achieving a sustainable ceasefire and that negotiations between the parties sponsored by the governments of Egypt and Qatar achieve good results,” they noted.
