Foreign Affairs Minister Ramírez completes U.S. visit to strengthen OAS candidacy - .::Agencia IP::.

Asunción, Agencia IP.- Foreign Affairs Minister Ruben Ramírez Lezcano concluded his trip to Washington, D.C., where he met with the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Latin America, Brian Nichols, and the current Secretary of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro. According to Infobae, the meeting with the State Department official focused on […]

Asunción, Agencia IP.- Foreign Affairs Minister Ruben Ramírez Lezcano concluded his trip to Washington, D.C., where he met with the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Latin America, Brian Nichols, and the current Secretary of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro.

According to Infobae, the meeting with the State Department official focused on Paraguay’s program to update the OAS in light of Ramírez’s candidacy and his perspective on the region.

Key regional issues discussed included «the Chinese offensive, Iranian terrorism, the undocumented migration crisis, and the regimes in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua.»

Ramírez condemned the dictatorships in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba, maintained a good dialogue with Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, and Mexico, and considered it crucial for the Caribbean—a bloc of 14 countries—to play a more prominent role in the OAS.