AmericasColombiaâs foreign minister resigns
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Colombia s Foreign Minister Claudia Blum speaks during a media briefing at San Carlos Palace in Bogota, Colombia February 26, 2021. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez
Colombiaâs Foreign Minister Claudia Blum has resigned, according to a letter from her shared by the ministry of foreign affairs on Thursday. I am grateful for the enormous confidence you placed in me when you named me for this important role, Blum said in her letter to President Ivan Duque.
Blumâs resignation follows that of former Finance Minister Alberto Carrasquilla, who resigned earlier this month after widespread protests against a now-cancelled tax reform.
Photo: Daniel Rojas Sánchez
Peaceful demonstrations were held over the weekend in many Colombian cities, among them Bogotá, the nation’s capital, where cultural organizations joined civic movements as part of the ongoing national strike Paro Nacional. While the protests drew some 3,000 participants according to the district’s Mobility Secretariat, the majority of Bogotanos continued their activities in an atmosphere of anxiety given that supplies of perishable goods are running low in discount stores, supermarkets and the capitalâs central food depot Corabastos.
On Saturday, a police operation on the
Bogotá â Zipaquira highway, which connects the dairy producing communities of the departments of Cundinamarca and Boyacá with the capital, was reopened after barricades placed strike supporters were removed with the support of the Army. One of the instigators who rallied locals to maintain the blockade is the Mayor of Zipaquira Wilson GarcÃa. Zipaquira is
During his Bogota stop, South Korea s First Vice Foreign Minister Choi Jong-Kun expressed his country s concerns over Japan s intentions to release the contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, the Asian nation s Foreign Ministry announced Tuesday in a statement.
Choi met with his Colombian counterpart, Francisco Echeverri, as well as Vice President Marta Lucia Ramirez and Foreign Minister Claudia Blum, the ministry said to discuss Seoul s to take part in the IAEA-led monitoring and asked for Colombia s understanding and cooperation as a country that shares the Pacific Ocean, the statement added.
On the bilateral relations of nearly 60 years, Choi and Echeverri discussed efforts to achieve substantive cooperation in trade and investment, health, medicine, science and digital technology to overcome the covid -19 pandemic. Also on the agenda was Colombian President Iván Duque s visit to Korea, cooperation during the pandemic and Colombia s p
Colombia Accuses Russia of Invading Its Airspace
21 Apr 2021
The government of Colombia issued a formal note of protest to Russia’s ambassador to Colombia, Nikolai Tavdumadze, on Monday after a Russian aircraft allegedly violated Colombia’s airspace.
“On behalf of the government [of Colombia], the Foreign Ministry sent an official note to the Russian Ambassador to Bogota, in which it expressed strong protest over the situation with a Russian plane that violated Colombia’s airspace on April 19,” Colombian Foreign Minister Claudia Blum said in a statement on April 19.
“Ambassador Tavdumadze was informed of the importance of a quick response from the Russian government that would guarantee that serious and systematic violations of Colombia’s airspace will not repeat themselves,” Blum said.
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