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The OAS will discuss Thursday the establishment of a special commission to seek "peaceful and sustainable" solutions to the situation in Nicaragua, where dozens of people have died in protests that began three years ago. months against the government of Daniel Ortega
The initiative, promoted by Brazil, Argentina, Canada, Chile, Colombia, the United States, Mexico and Peru, will be evaluated by the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) on August 2 at 10:00 am (11:00 am). at its seat in Washington
The draft resolution requires the approval of a simple majority of the 34 active member states.
"The Special Commission for Nicaragua will badist the process of national dialogue, including support, monitoring and verification measures in coordination with ongoing efforts of the Organization and other regional and international actors" , underlines the text published on the OAS website on the Internet
the Permanent Council, which will be formed no later than 10 August by delegates from each regional group and from other member states who will be appointed by the presidency, currently occupied by Costa Rica.
Ortega said Monday in an interview with CNN, that Nicaragua returns to normal after the protests that have killed 195 people, according to the government, and more than 300 according to human rights groups.
However, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), an autonomous entity of the OAS, badured that Nicaragua is in a third phase of re pressure that results in "an intense process of criminalization of protesters."
Tuesday, the UN refugee agency said that at least 23,000 people were fleeing violence In Nicaragua, they asked asylum in neighboring Costa Rica
. Panama, Mexico and the United States have also seen an increase in arrivals from Nicaragua, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees reported.
The protesters demanded the resignation of Ortega, who ruled between 1979 and 1964, in the city of Nogales, and 1990 and returned to power in 2007, as well as his wife and vice president, Rosario Murillo, that they accuse of instituting a dictatorship.
On July 18, the OAS approved a resolution urging the Ortega government to accept its opponent to an early election schedule and condemning "all acts of violence" documented by the IACHR, including those committed by the police and militia.
The organization had already condemned at its June General Assembly in Nicaragua, but without holding the Ortega government accountable for the crackdown.
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