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The President of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, announced today that the headquarters of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), located in the center of the world, north of Quito , would become an Aboriginal higher education center. [19659002] At a meeting in the municipality of Latacunga where a decree was signed for the establishment of the Secretariat of Intercultural Bilingual Education, the President announced, after the day before he said that the Unasur building was a "new white elephant" "We will have the center of indigenous universities in a building that no longer works, very expensive", which cost about 45 million dollars, said Moreno about the current headquarters from Unasur, in a futuristic architectural complex that has won international awards.
"We must cross Unasur to retrieve the building, so that the indigenous university can be there," Moreno reiterated. the statements reproduced by the National Secretariat of Communication (Secom).
Before, in an official Twitter account, Secom published the following text attributed to Moreno: "We will have the Aboriginal Center of Higher Education in the Unasur building.We will treat your return because no task n & # 39, was fulfilled.We will go to Unasur in another space. "
The seat of the Union, built under the government of former President Rafael Correa, the ex-religious of Moreno became his most bitter political rival, home to the General Secretariat of Exit last December of former Colombian President Ernesto Samper.
The building, considered the symbol of integration for regional development, was delivered by President Moreno to the indigenous movement "so that the seat of the pluricultural University of nationalities and peoples Amawtay Wasi, "writes Chief José Atupaña
On this basis, Correa, who resides in Belgium, reacted and lamented that the indigenous movement approves Moreno's decision
. Will he be complicit in the destruction of UNASUR? I can not believe it! Correa wrote on his Twitter account, a network that he usually uses to refer to his country's internal politics.
Apawci Castro, spokesperson for the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie), confirmed He referred to the announcement of Moreno, which he positively appreciates, as well as the "dialogue that he engaged" with the indigenous nationalities, which he hopes to concretize in specific measures.
Yesterday he said that the transfer of the Pan American organization Another site must have the approval of its members, a dozen countries in the region, Moreno n '# 39; he did not specify whether any steps were taken to turn it into a university center or when it could be inaugurated.
"Unasur is pitifully not working for the lack of consensus of the countries that make it up, which has led to the half of 39, among them to give up, "said Thursday the meadow Ecuadorian president with reference to Argentina and Brazil. , Chile, Colombia, Paraguay and Peru.
These countries announced in April that they would leave Unasur until the proper functioning of the organization is guaranteed, for more than a year by disagreements among its members.
Moreno defended the spirit of integration that involves the multilateral body, "a good idea that, unfortunately, human failures, did not crystallize, ideological failures."
"At some point, we will have to consider looking for another destination, without thinking about the possibility of Unasur closing in. We will have to badign another building (to the organization)," he concluded. / 07/2018)
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