On November 19, Nicaragua announced its withdrawal from the OAS and accused it of “interference.”
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, urged the international community on Monday (11.29.2021) to continue pressuring Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, so that his country “resume the path of democracy.” .
Almagro made this new call in an extraordinary session of the OAS Permanent Council on Nicaragua, a country that on November 19 announced its intention to leave the hemispheric forum.
“The international community must strengthen its pressure mechanisms, those that are bilateral, those that are multilateral, those that have to do with financial organizations and those that have to do with political multilateralism. We must continue working so that Nicaragua can resume the path of democracy, ”Almagro said.
Faced with Nicaragua’s desire to leave the OAS, Almagro called for “renewed efforts” to defend democracy and the rights of Nicaraguans.
On November 19, Nicaragua announced its withdrawal from the OAS and accused it of “interference”, after the 51st General Assembly passed a resolution in which it assured that the November 7 elections in which Ortega was reelected lacked “democratic legitimacy” and were neither free, fair, nor transparent.
To make its exit, Nicaragua denounced the OAS Charter, the organization’s founding document signed in 1948. According to the organization’s regulations, any country that denounces the OAS Charter has to wait two years for the withdrawal to become effective.
During Monday’s meeting, the Nicaraguan representative to the OAS, Michael Campbell, assured that the decision to leave the organization is “irrevocable.”
“The people and government worthy of Nicaragua renounces being part of this captive organization in Washington instrumentalized in favor of North American interests, becoming a builder of interference and disagreements, to the prejudice of the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean,” Campbell alleged during the virtual meeting of the Permanent Council. (I)
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