[Politics] President Petro proposes creating a Treaty of the Americas on Clean Energies

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That was the president's proposal after installing the ambassadors in Canada, Brazil, Finland, Costa Rica, China and Mexico.

 

 

President Gustavo Petro proposed the creation of an Americas Treaty on Clean Energies, when he installed the new ambassadors of Colombia in Canada, Carlos Arturo Morales López; Brazil, Guillermo Abel Rivera Flórez; Finland, Alvaro Sandoval Bernal; Costa Rica, Carlos Rodríguez Mejía; China, Sergio Cabrera Cárdenas, and Mexico, Álvaro Moisés Ninco Daza.

Petro entrusted officials to initiate efforts to create the treaty, which would seek to build an electrical network from Patagonia to Alaska, in the United States (USA). The new ambassador to Canada was asked to "establish the first formal dialogues for a Treaty of the Americas in favor of energy integration."

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According to the president, Canada is an important ally in the effort around clean energy, which the countries of South America can potentially generate and transmit through the electrical network so that they reach North America.

Meanwhile, the new ambassador to Brazil, Guillermo Rivera, told him that his priority is to hold a meeting of experts "with all the countries that have territorial responsibility in the Amazon jungle, including France, in Tabatinga or in Leticia."

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That meeting, added the president, would be a "prelude to formulating an empowerment of the institutions, which already exist, and of an agenda for the presidents, in a meeting that, hopefully, will be held in Leticia, Colombia, to set up a common fund." .

In this sense, he announced that the country already has "a budget addition that Colombia will present to its Congress, next Monday, for 600 billion pesos, which will become future validity to guarantee that Colombia invests an amount of 150 of its resources. million dollars a year for 20 years.

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Drug policy with Mexico
The ambassador in Mexico, Álvaro Moisés Ninco, was commissioned to work for the repatriation of the mortal remains of General José María Melo, considered the first indigenous president of Colombia. He also asked him to work on the Latin American Conference on Drug Policy, which would be attended by the Mexican President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

"Mexico and Colombia have the largest number of victims of that war," recalled the head of state and told the Ambassador that his first responsibility is to work on this issue.

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China: decarbonizing their economies
Referring to the new ambassador to China, Sergio Cabrera, Petro indicated that that country and the US have a responsibility to decarbonize their economies. “In the end, either the market is capable of decarbonizing the US economy or China's state planning system is capable of decarbonizing its economy,” he said.

And he added: “The two are the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world. The life of humanity depends on those countries. Whoever does it will be a world power.” Likewise, he stressed that there are several topics of conversation with China, among them the construction of a railway network that relieves congestion in the Panama Canal and the Bogotá Metro.

 

link: https://www.elespectador.com/politica/presidente-petro-plantea-crear-un-tratado-de-las-americas-sobre-energias-limpias-embajadores-en-canada-brasil-finlandia-costa-rica-china-y-mexico/