The social activist considered in an interview with Prensa Latina that decolonized relations, dialogue and attention to proposals should mark the Summit between the EU and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), set to take place on July 17th and 18.
According to Polanco, the People’s Summit, which will meet in parallel, will have the goal of demanding that the EU abandon its vision of colonization and interference in Latin American countries that do not accept the hegemony that the centers of power try to impose. She stressed that the EU cannot tell the region how to make its treaties or its ecological transition, and rather would do well to learn from it.
“At the Summit of the Peoples in Brussels we will defend three principles: respect for sovereignty and self-determination, respect for the CELAC’s decision on peace and support for the scenario of the emergence of a multipolar world,” Polanco stressed.
For the activist, Europe ought to imitate the path chosen by CELAC, which declared Latin America and the Caribbean a region of peace, at the meeting of its heads of state and government in Havana back in 2014.
“The European Union should listen to those in Latin America, who propose solutions to the war in Ukraine and urge to abandon the warmongering impositions of the United States, whose interests have nothing to do with those of the European peoples. (…) However, we know that the EU will try to impose its vision against Russia, marked by sanctions and the shipment of weapons to fuel the conflict” during the Summit with CELAC, she warned.
Regarding the positions of domination and interference, Polanco explained that the People’s Summit will reject the unilateral coercive measures that weigh on nations in the region. “This is a matter of great importance, for this reason (…) we will promote the holding of a court in the last quarter of 2023 to denounce the damage caused by the blockades and the sanctions to the countries affected by these policies, which also attack European sovereignty due to its subordination to the United States.”
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