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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM |
 The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS), during the regular meeting held
Wednesday,
heard the positions of member states and the Secretary General of the
institution, José Miguel Insulza, on the escalation of violence in Gaza,
which has claimed more than 700 lives to this point.
The representatives, who read the official positions of their
governments, and Secretary General Insulza, mentioned the need for an
immediate cease fire, an end to the violence that fundamentally affects
innocent civilians, and support for the measures of the United Nations.
Secretary General Insulza, as he expressed last week, said “there
are two lines here: the first is to demand an immediate cease fire,” and
next, he said it is necessary to emphasize that “Gaza has no viability,
no possibility of life in current conditions. It is a zone completely
blocked off whose inhabitants cannot leave through Israel nor Egypt
without great difficulty.”
The OAS leader appealed to the responsibility of international
organizations to find a solution to put an end to the attacks and to
seek a solution for the underlying problem, because “you cannot have 1.8
million people living in a territory that small without any way of
earning a living and think that hostilities will not begin again soon.”
The representatives of Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela,
Uruguay, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, and the United States took
the floor to present the positions of their governments on the conflict.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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