Boric, visiting Canada before going to the US city of Los Angeles, where the hemispheric meeting is taking place, pointed out that Washington’s policy is wrong and that historically “it has not given results,” says newspaper El Mostrador.

At a press conference in Ottawa, the president pointed out that the exclusion of the aforementioned countries will be one of the issues to be addressed at the meeting, whose high-level segment is scheduled for June 9 and 10.

“We are going (…) with the conviction that multilateral dialogue spaces are those that are going to allow us to build better relations between our countries, where no one is going to save himself, we have to unite to better develop our nations,” Boric was quoted as saying by the press.

Washington unilaterally excluded the aforementioned countries from the continental meeting under the argument of respect for human rights, a decision that generated questions and the rejection of governments, political and social leaders, and political organizations such as the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.

The visit of the Chilean president to Canada responds to an agenda that includes an official meeting with the Prime Minister of that country, Justin Trudeau, and the signing of several cooperation agreements on the environment, gender equality and trade.

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