The United States will host the ninth Summit of the Americas in June this year, but instead tried to exclude the three American countries of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, which caused dissatisfaction from the Mexican government. According to the Associated Press reported on May 10, Mexican President López said on the same day that if the United States insists on excluding Cuba and other countries, he will not attend the Inter-American Summit.
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After concluding his first official visit to Cuba, López held a press conference in Mexico City on the 10th. Speaking about the upcoming Summit of the Americas in the United States next month, López said the issues surrounding the summit invitation list remain unresolved, and Mexico seeks unity across the Americas and does not want to shut anyone out.
López said: "We don't think there should be confrontation. Even if there are differences, we must engage in dialogue, and all Americans should participate. This issue has not yet been resolved. We have a good relationship with the Biden administration, and we want every country to be invited, and that's where the Mexican government stands. ”
He stressed that as long as the United States refuses to allow Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua to participate in the Summit of the Americas, he will not attend in person: "If someone is excluded, if not all of them are invited, the Mexican government will send only one representative, and I will not attend the meeting." ”
López also said he knew that some politicians in the United States were trying to advocate the "blockade of Cuba", but he thought this political strategy was shameful, "there is still time until the summit, we can reach an agreement." But we must unite in the search for American unity. ”
During his visit to Cuba, López has made clear the position of the Mexican government on the 8th, saying that it will require the Biden administration to hold the ninth Inter-American summit without excluding any American country. He also said he would again ask the United States to lift the 60-year-old embargo against Cuba. Cuban President Díaz-Canel thanked López for his position and awarded him the Order of the Cuban Government, "José Martí", the highest honor.
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The ninth Summit of the Americas, hosted by the United States, will be held in Los Angeles, united States, from June 5 to 8 local time, but the summit has tried to exclude some American countries. Brian Nichols, the assistant U.S. secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, said on April 27 that the Biden administration did not intend to invite the leaders of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua to the summit.
Asked if the U.S. would invite Venezuelan opposition leader Guaido to the summit, Nichols declined to respond, saying only that the U.S. government would "make a decision soon."
Cuba was excluded from the six Summits of the Americas, held between 1994 and 2012. But under pressure from South American leaders, Cuba was invited to a summit in Panama in 2015. In 2018, due to the exclusion of Venezuelan President Maduro, Cuba sent only its foreign minister to a summit in Peru.
The US "Capitol Hill" said that the US government's statement has made many countries in South America and the Caribbean dissatisfied, they are worried that the summit will become a stage for the United States to show regional policies, and called on the United States not to exclude any American countries from the summit.
Argentina, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, issued an appeal this month for the summit to avoid excluding any government.
Caribbean leaders have discussed a collective boycott of the Americas Summit. Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne previously said: "We do not endorse the exclusion of Cuba and Venezuela, nor do we recognize Guaido as President of Venezuela." Under such circumstances, Antigua and Barbuda will not participate. ”
Brown said the Caribbean foreign ministers' meeting in Belize in March had reached a consensus that if a country were excluded from the Summit of the Americas, Caribbean countries would collectively boycott the summit. However, he also admitted that he was not sure whether the relevant countries could adhere to this consensus.
In addition, two "insiders" also told the British Reuters that Brazilian President Bolsonaro also told his aides in recent days that he did not plan to participate in the Americas summit hosted by the United States, but he did not explain the specific reasons. A spokesman for Brazil's Foreign Ministry responded that whether Bolsonaro will participate in the meeting has yet to be studied, and the Brazilian government has not yet made a final decision.
Reuters: Sources say Bolsonaro plans not to attend the Summit of the Americas
The Associated Press pointed out that if Mexican President López López is absent from the summit, the issue of immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border that the United States hopes to focus on will undoubtedly be hit. Biden announced back in March that he planned to sign a regional declaration on migration at the Americas Summit in June, and called for a "new framework for how regional countries can work together to manage migration in the Western Hemisphere."
Today, the United States is struggling with the influx of migrants into the southern border. Documents released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on April 15 showed that the agency handled 221303 illegal immigrants arriving at the southern U.S. border in March, a 24 percent increase from the same period last year and a 22-year high.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump, who signed the Section 42 immigration deportation order, which allows U.S. authorities to dismiss immigrants' asylum claims without processing them and deport them quickly, expires on May 23. The Associated Press said more migrants are expected to arrive north to the U.S.-Mexico border after the deportation order is lifted, so the summit of the Americas is crucial to U.S. control of immigration.
Regarding López's request that the United States not exclude any American country at the Summit of the Americas, Zhao Lijian, spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said on the 10th that President López was right that the Summit of the Americas could not only apply "American standards", could not only serve "us private interests", and could not be reduced to a "US summit".
Zhao Lijian pointed out that the United States ostensibly says that "the Americas are the Americas of the Americans," but in fact it is doing "America is the Americas of the Americans." The United States regards Latin America as its backyard, not wholeheartedly supporting it, but arbitrarily bullying, not only has its own development and prosperity not benefited Latin America, but has wantonly exploited Latin America, imposed indiscriminate sanctions, exported inflation, engaged in political intervention, regime subversion, assassination of dignitaries, and even armed aggression. To this day, the United States still ignores the opposition of the international community and regional countries, insists on maintaining unilateral illegal sanctions against some Latin American countries, slanders and smears the legitimate actions of Latin American countries to cooperate with other countries to seek development, and lacks due basic respect for Latin American countries.
Zhao Lijian expressed the hope that the US side will earnestly respect the sovereignty and dignity of Latin American countries and earnestly abide by the basic norms governing international relations. The "Monroe Doctrine" has no market in Latin America today, and the United States should not expect to replicate it elsewhere in the world.
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