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The Permanent Council of the OAS approved a resolution on Nicaragua in which it is requested the government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega to accept the proposal of the Catholic Church to advance until March 2019 the elections scheduled for 2021 With 21 votes for, 3 votes against, 7 abstentions and 3 absentees, the initiative, promoted by seven countries (Argentina, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru and USA) and supported by Mexico, has been approved and "urges" the Nicaraguan executive to "support an agreed electoral timetable as part of the national dialogue process," according to the text.
Among the countries that voted in favor of the resolution are Argentina, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, EE. UU, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Saint Lucia and Uruguay.
Similarly, at the extraordinary session, the resolution presented by the Nicaraguan Chancellor to the OAS was voted, Denis Moncada, which was rejected after receiving 3 votes in favor, 20 against, 8 abstentions and three absences.
"A strong vote was won in favor of the people of Nicaragua, an energetic condemnation of violence, but" badured the Permanent Representative of Colombia to the OAS, Andrés González Díaz, to NTN 24.
The Permanent Representative of the United States to the OAS, Carlos Trujillo, affirmed that "the international community supports the Nicaraguan people, the largest countries in Latin America do not recognize what the government official said "of the country."
"It was a very good decision n that corroborates the work of the Commission (Interamerican Human Rights), which fully supports the work we have done in the country of Nicaragua and believes that it is fundamentally generating a logic of international solidarity with the people, "said IACHR Executive Secretary Paulo Abrão
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