The President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, has assured on Tuesday that he will not send arms to Ukraine, despite the fact that the United States would have asked him to deliver Russian weapons.
Petro has indicated that he has refused because the Colombian Constitution orders peace, so that this material «will remain as scrap in Colombia, as he stated in a press conference at the end of the Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), which is taking place these days in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires.
«In the past years, Colombia has bought Russian war material, helicopters, etc., for its own purposes inside the country. For its own purposes within the country, this material is there, it has problems of maintenance because assistance is now impossible to exchange parties», he explained.
For this reason, he added that Washington told him that, «to solve the problem» of Colombia’s inability to «sustain these active elements», they should deliver the weapons to the Biden Administration, which would be the one to send them to Ukraine.
Thus, the President has insisted that his cabinet is concerned about this conflict, for which he will urge the International Criminal Court (ICC) to elevate the aggression to an international crime. «We are not with any of them, we are with peace, that is why no weapon will be used in this conflict», he concluded.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
