| inbluevt | Date: Saturday, 2013/07/06, 2:23 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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LA PAZ, Jul 5 2013 (IPS) - South American leaders demanded that the governments of France, Italy,
Portugal and Spain provide explanations and public apologies to Bolivian
President Evo Morales for refusing his presidential jet permission to fly through their airspace on his way home from Moscow.
Five presidents and other high-level representatives of the members of the Union of South American Nations(UNASUR) who held an extraordinary meeting Thursday in the central Bolivian city of Cochabamba said the denial of access to the four European countries’ airspace was a violation of Morales’ rights and immunity and of international law, and set a “dangerous precedent”.
They also decided to create a commission tol follow up on the formal complaints that will be brought before the United Nations and other international bodies.The declaration was not signed by UNASUR as a bloc but by presidents Rafael Correa of Ecuador, Cristina Fernández of Argentina, Nicolás
Maduro of Venezuela, José Mujica of Uruguay and Desiré Bouterse of Suriname, as well as delegates of the governments of Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Guyana and Peru. Paraguay did not take part in the meeting
because it is still suspended from the bloc as a result of the ouster of
President Fernando Lugo in June 2012.
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